Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and ninety fire-filled years ago, a burning grate pilled high with colas started one of the University's most disastrous blazes. In the middle of the winter of 1764 the fire place in Harvard Hall, where the Massachusetts General Assembly was meeting, set the famous building into an inferno. When the blaze subsided most of the books in John Harvard's original library were up in smoke and the hall lay in ashes...
Since then the University has compiled a long list of false alarms, wasted fire extinguishers, and genuine fires. The most recent hot house was the Calverly blaze which began late one Sunday morning in 1855 to find it clouded March night in 1951. A cigarette got the blame for $65,000 worth of damage. Before the days of the infernal weed, flying sparks and gas fumes were the cause of most of the fires in undergraduate rooms...
Three years after this incident, in 1858, Eliot recalled the case of a famous French instructor who resigned over the issue of a fire in his classroom. The distracted man, who was held in high esteem by faculty and students alike, blamed the Jesuits for starting the blaze which almost consumed University Hall...
...room was unoccupied at the time, and evidently hot ashes on the sofa started the blaze unnoticed. Aside from the sofa itself and a good deal of smoke, there was little damage...
...Mordecai Fowler Ham, a fiery-eyed, long-fingered Kentucky revivalist, began to blaze away at Charlotte from a tabernacle on the edge of town. Billy Frank Graham somehow sensed that he was a sitting duck for Mordecai Ham, and carefully stayed away. Finally, at his mother's urging, Billy went to the tabernacle with his good friend. Grady Wilson. For a week the two boys quailed under the gimlet gaze of Mordecai. who seemed to be searching out their most secret sins. Then they joined the choir so they could stand behind him, but there was no hiding place...