Clanging Fire Apparatus Interrupts Sever Hall Work

Eleven o'clock classes in the Yard were disrupted yesterday morning when the Cambridge Fire Department poured through the gates, roared with screaming sirens across the walks, and pulled up in front of Sever Hall.

Amidst the cheers of students and mingled ories of: "Let it burn," rubber-coated figures untangled hoses and disappeared into doorways jammed with emerging scholars.

A smouldering blaze between the double flooring of the building was discovered to be the cause of the smoke which a few minutes earlier had seeped through the ventilating system and caused the alarm to be turned in. Damage caused by the "conflagration," believed to have been caused by a cigarette stub, was slight.