The above quote is from Michael Feld who received his Ph.D. in 1973. Read the full memory below:

I was doing PhD research at the Rock when the fire alarm went off. I, and all the other grad student researchers in nearby carrels, stood up. We all looked down at the masses of notes, texts and journals we’d accumulated. There was no way we could save both ourselves and our research tools. As if controlled by a single mind, each of us decided that it would be better to die surrounded by our materials than to abandon them. So we all sat down. False alarm.