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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...
...razing the old structure was simplified by a blaze on January 15, 1930. The fire attracted 4,500 onlookers and forty fire engines. Everyone watched but no one moved since flames were shooting twice the height of the building. When the inflreno subsided, over 300 complete football uniforms, 100 baseball pants, and miscellaneous minor sports equipment were listed among the missing...
...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...