Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main building of the university, which was totally destroyed by the fire started by the German troops the night of August 26 and the morning of August 27, had been built--the lower part in 1317,--after the early Gothic style. It had served for more than two centuries as a cloth warehouse. The upper part had been constructed in the nineteenth century, in the classical style. The halls contained the promotion room, all the bureaus of administration, the archives and all the souvenirs of the university, and finally the library. There, also, until less than two years ago, were...
...this nothing remains except some ruined walls and heaps of cinders. The fire was so violent that not even the charred remains of large books could be found. The library contained more than 230,000 volumes, among which were 380 incunabula -- some of them very rare and beautiful examples. Nine hundred and twenty manuscripts, several of which figured an autobiography of Thomas a Kempis, have also disappeared. The library of Louvain contained the complete and unique collection of all the books and pamphlets published in the Austrian Low-Countries (Belgium) during the eighteenth century. It also possessed a collection...
...Fire Insurance and Foreign Trade, at 2, in Sever...
...fire equipment in and about the Yard is in a condition to fully cope with any needs which may arise. Four fire boxes are placed at convenient intervals around the various buildings and students discovering any signs of fire should notify the Cambridge Fire Department by means of these boxes immediately. Box number 454 is situated behind University Hall, box 48 is in front of Memorial, box 512 is on Church street and box 472 on Massachusetts avenue, opposite Bow street. In addition and as a further preventative to fire the University has installed an excellent system of automatic fire...
...plot against the Cercle Francais may be about to be unearthed, especially as it has been discovered that this mass of concrete is the gift of the Deutscher Verein. Considerable apprehension is felt by the inmates of Grays 17 as that building would be directly in the line of fire. The Cercle has laid in a large supply of absinthe, and expects to survive a long siege...