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Terrified of fire, Gray had installed a metal bar by his window on the top floor of the Burrough’s building at Peterhouse, so that in the event of a fire Gray could tie his sheets to it and climb to safety. One night undergraduates decided to play a prank and shouted “fire”. Gray climbed down from his window, landing in a barrel of water placed beneath.

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