Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although it is an old subject, the fact remains that Sever Hall would be very dangerous in case of a fire. There are no outside fire escapes, and the stairs are wooden and would burn quickly. On every floor there are wire ladders, but in the confusion incident to a serious conflagration these would be difficult to fasten and uncoil. Furthermore, the congestion that would result about windows would make exit from them extremely difficult...
There are approximately thirty-six recitation rooms in Sever, holding on an average thirty-five men at least. So in the morning there are very nearly a thousand men in Sever each hour. Almost all the other college buildings of any height have outside fire-escapes or fire proof stairs: Emerson, Boylston, the Geological Museum...
...professors and very far advanced students, are excellent and adequate, it must be admitted that the facilities for instructing the undergraduate are perhaps the worst in the country, and that, in comparison with some other departments, the chemistry department is at a distinct disadvantage. Boylston Hall is not fire-proof; its store-room is inaccessible; it is dark;--in fact it is hopelessly inadequate...
...building is as nearly fire-proof as can be made, a precaution necessary to preserve the priceless collections of books and classified specimens. The only wooden furniture in the building is that once used by Dr. Gray, now preserved in the office of Professor Robinson. The equipment is well adapted for the most specialized use of the botanist. From the dark room for photography to the indexed cases for maps everything is fire-proof, specialized and modern...
...Many professors saw their works and collections consumed in the fire; more than twenty of them have had their houses burned and witnessed the destruction of their books, their letters, and their notes. All the important presses and book-shops of Louvain have been burnt; likewise, all the collections of reviews published at Louvain by our professors. Among these scientific losses I shall mention one especially deplorable. Professor Van Gehuchten had published, twenty years ago, a work on the anatomy of the nervous system, which had won for him a world-wide reputation. In June, 1914, he had finished...