Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Granite is a very bad material for construction, as it will crumble when exposed to great heat. The cheapest and most simple protection against fire is to put a horizontal cut-off in the hollow walls between the stories. This will cause the fire to enter the room, where it can be seen and attended to. If this simple expedient should be generally tried, and the floors carried to the outer walls, probably at least twenty-five per cent. of the losses now experienced would be done away with...
...Hollow as ever vexed the tranquil...
...Harvard Directory has just appeared. It is dated October 16th, and its appearance at this late date, taken in connection with its prefatory notice, seems nothing less than a hollow mockery...
Unless by some unlucky chance we are treading upon the hollow crust which overlies the deep volcano of a satirical editorial, we wish to enter our protest against the suggestion advanced in the last Advocate, that in order to secure victory our team adopt next year the Yale method of playing foot-ball-the method of illegal fouling and of deliberate maiming. Harvard can never descend to such a game, and if the suggestion of the Advocate be serious, it is, we think, highly reprehensible and unworthy of our esteemed contemporary...
During the last week of last term the General Assembly resigned all powers of government and returned them to the regent and faculty. They refused to acknowledge the action of the assembly, the regent deciding it unconstitutional, upon technical grounds. And so the government still exists, - a hollow form supported by the officers of the university. A recent announcement of the president, calling a special meeting of the General Assembly, failed to bring together a quorum...