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...huge pot of melted fat took fire on one of the ranges; and immediately the kitchens were filled with hot smoke, which soon rushed through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished the flames before the fire had burnt through the floor of the dining room; but the escape of the building from destruction was so narrow, that the Corporation later caused a fire-proof floor to be substituted in the Hall for the preceding hollow structure of wood...
...instrument of democracy and efficiency, it (the Harvard Union) has been a dreary waste of time, of money, and of enthusiasm?" True, it has not developed into a working model of an ideal democracy, but we hate to call it a "dreary waste," unless the time, money, and enthusiasm burnt at class meetings, mass meetings, and excellent lectures are considered to be thereby squandered...
...rebate checks from the Freshman dinner will be redeemed at the Rendezvous this afternoon between 2 and 3. Only 90 cents will be returned to each holder of a check, inasmuch as many souvenirs were taken away and table cloths were burnt, so that $30 of the bond had to be paid to the management of the American House...
...includes portraits, autographs, and books, beside early maps and views of London and Cambridge, and modern views of places connected with Harvard's memory. There is also placed here, a collection of books duplicating, so far as possible, those which Harvard bequeathed to the infant College and which were burnt in the fire of 1764. The collection is by no means complete, but it is sufficiently extensive to give a good idea of the character of the library owned by the young Puritan clergyman. In looking at these books, which are now old and dilapidated, it must be borne...
...Tripolitans floated the frigate, raised the guns, and the refitted ship lay under the guns of the forts when the "Intrepid", a small ketch, brought in by night about 75 men led by Lieutenant Decatur and a Sicilian pilot. The frigate was boarded and burnt, and the ketch escaped under fire of the harbor guns...