Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...explosion of chemicals in the photographic room on the top floor of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory caused a slight blaze yesterday. The Cambridge fire department was called out, but before the apparatus arrived, prompt action by the men in the laboratory with hand grenades extinguished the fire. The damage is estimated at about...
...proper place for such an improvement is of course, the Gymnasium, but it would be more expensive to add a tank to the completed Gymnasium, than to build one when the University Club is being erected; and, indeed, the cost of a tank is slight in comparison with the total cost of the building about...
...view of the fact that the present style of fence has met the approval of many generations since the founding of the College, it is clear that a radical departure in style would be in direct violation of one of our oldest traditions. What is needed, then, is a slight improvement in permanency and looks over the present fence. Of styles that might not be too radical may be suggested a modest stone wall three or four feet in height, which in time, by the aid of vines, may fit in with the general tone of age and dignity...
...lessen the destructive effect of fire. New plans have been drawn up by the former architects, Peabody and Stearns of Boston, and only the approval of the Harvard Club of New York is awaited before construction begins. The foundations of the burned building will be used after a slight re-enforcement has been made for sustaining the heavy brick walls. The building will not be ready for use this year...