Word: bursar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...story of the building, proved less disastrous than might have been expected. But if the fire had broken out on the ground-floor during the night, great loss of property, and perhaps of life, would have been inevitable. The ladders, which figured so prominently in the Bursar's letter to the Advertiser last year, and which he stated could be put in use in less than five minutes, were found to be so carefully strapped down that it was more than ten minutes before they could be placed in position. The Cambridge Fire Department was as inefficient as can well...
...Bursar wildly tore his hair...
...entirely out until an hour later. A large part of the south roof was burnt, leaving the rooms below open to the air, and obliging all the occupants of the entry to seek shelter elsewhere. Vacant rooms in Thayer and Holyoke were placed at their disposal by the Bursar. No satisfactory explanation of the way in which the fire started has yet been given. The damage done the building is estimated at $2,000; the loss of the students in furniture, though not large, cannot be easily estimated...
...want you to print this, like an old dear, because you 're so full of influence and bright ideas and cleverness and things, that everybody minds everything you say, at least the Faculty and the Bursar do. But I must n't chatter. There's that darling Professor Giggles calling me for Domestic Astronomy...
...civil attendant, the bursar...