Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...item "crockery assessment" includes in the monthly auditor's report of Memorial Hall. In the last report the assessment was $194.56, and the assessment has never been less than $100. The charge surely cannot be for the breaking of crockery, as even the proverbial carelessness of waiters could not destroy that amount in one or two months...
...desire to shut up Jarvis Field with a lofty fence so that they may realize more money by athletic exhibitions. As the border streets are narrow and the intended fences would stand close to the side-walks, the necessary effect would be to sadly injure the neighboring houses, to destroy their southern outlook, deprive them of most of their summer air and give a gloomy aspect to the lower front rooms; so that the taxes would have to be reduced because of the injury to the property, and some of the inhabitants might move away. Should the college government sanction...
...despatch from Louisville says four attempts were made Saturday evening to destroy the office of the Daily World newspaper. Two of the fires were extinguished without alarms, and for the others the fire department was called...
...given, and that one rather impracticable should not be adopted as a criterion. The style which we endeavor to imitate is no doubt beautiful and good for some subjects, but the fact that we are obliged to write according to the judgment of a single individual tends to destroy all originality. If originality is of value anywhere it should be in this particular course...
...windows. Matthews has a fire ladder, but Thayer, the largest and highest building, has no means of escape, except the wooden fire ladders under the chapel, which are not long enough to reach the upper story. A fire, occurring in a building like Thayer during the night, would probably destroy life, thereby injuring Harvard more than the small expenditure necessary to sink a well and construct a reservoir. A large supply tank could be placed immediately under the roof of Thayer, or the tower of the chapel could be utilized to the extent of placing a cylindrical sheet iron tank...