Word: burnt
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...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...
...introduction Mr. Furlong will review the conditions in the Mediterranean which led to our wars against the Barbary pirates, during which the Frigate "Philadelphia" was seized by the Tripolitans and recaptured and burnt by Lieutenant Decatur in Tripoli harbor...
...Haramesh-Sherif at Jerusalem, which is the result of actual measurements and careful observation, represents the present condition of the plateau where once stood the ancient Temple of Solomon, and also shows the Mosque of Omar, which, it is believed, occupies the site of Solomon's altar of burnt offerings. Another model is a representation of the Temple of Herod which was destroyed in the year 70 A. D. Although this is an elaborate work, it is, however, largely imaginative, and is no more accurate than the numerous other attempts at the restoration of this building. The third copy...