Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...original Erechtheum was burnt by the Persians; but the new temple was erected on the ancient site. It is a later structure than the Parthenon. The ground plan of the temple was unique, differing from every other known example of a Greek temple. Instead of the usual oblong figure with a portico at each end, the Erechtheum had projecting porticoes on the north and south sides, and a portico at only one end, the eastern one. On the southern side is the Porch of the Maidens, one of the best known specimens of Greek architecture. The skill displayed here...
Ralph Ensign, a Yale senior, was generating gas from hydrofluoric acid in the Kent Laboratory recently, when the tube burst and its contents flew in his face and over his clothing. His eyes escaped, but his face was badly burnt...
...Kilvert, '89. An alarm was sounded from box 59, which brought several engines and a large crowd to the spot. The door was burst open and the floor was found to be in a blaze. It is probable that coals from the grate fell out upon the floor and burnt a hole through. The fire then crept along under the floor and burst out again in the center of the room. The flames were quickly extinguished by the firemen, acting under the directions of President Eliot. The furniture and books in room 11 were badly scorched and wet. The chief...
...suit brought against the university by the father of F. R. Brooks, '89, who was badly burnt in the chemical laboratory last year, will be tried this summer in Boston...
...heard the cry of Fire, one moment brought me to the window where I saw the old Harvard College on fire, and it was with the utmost difficulty they savd the other Buildings. Stoughton was on fire an Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except a bed or two, the whole Library, except some books lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation, were demolished, the whole apparatus. Mrs. Hancock who lodgd out on account of the storm lost everything except the cloths...