Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Work has been continued on the rebuilding of the Gray Herbarium in fire-proof materials. Much of the central part of the building has already been remodeled, and the contract for the remaining work has recently been let. In the near future the whole structure will be fire-proof according to the most modern standards...
...trouble is feared this year, though the staff has been better prepared for the final contests. Gile and Way, on whom the burden of the series, will fall, have both been showing late season form more than commensurate with the general improvement of the team. Gile is cool under fire, while Way has shown greater disposition to be erratic. Brown, Yale's mainstay last year, has not succeeded in getting into top condition, and has not been used for a month. He together with Stevens, will probably be used only in case of a pinch...
Harvard College has also had innumerable escapes from fire losses, because of the prompt extinguishment of fires started. The commonest cause of fires in the dormitories was the falling of live coals out of the grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start...
...rooms were established in the basement; and a ceiling made of mortar on wooden laths was placed on the underside of the wooden floor-timbers of the hall itself. The apparatus installed worked well and safely for several years; but one day a huge pot of melted fat took fire on one of the ranges; and immediately the kitchens were filled with hot smoke, which soon rushed through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished the flames before the fire had burnt through the floor of the dining room...
These various losses and alarms induced the Corporation, after 1872, to take certain precautions against the spread of fire in their old buildings; and after 1880 to use, or ask for,--"slow-burning" or "fire-proof" construction in their new buildings...