COLLAPSIBLE FIRE ESCAPES TO ADORN OLD DORMITORIES

Inhabitants of the gloomy interiors of Harvard's older dormitories, both within and outside of the Yard, are to be protected from the ravages of fire by a new and patented collapsible fire escape.

This new contraption, an affair of rope and iron rungs, will be encased in a wooden box with a plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though he were leaving his yacht.

It is guaranteed by the manufacturers that this ladder will last for fifty years instead of the ten that the present rope pulleys last.