Word: proof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From the annual report of the Astronomical Observatory which was noticed in Wednesday's CRIMSON, it appears that the collection of astronomical photographs and manuscript records, accumulated by years of patient work, is stored in a wooden building, for the reason that there is no available fire-proof building on the observatory grounds. Though the presence of this collection may be an aid, it is by no means necessary in the work of observation conducted at the observation conducted at the observatory, while the examination of the photographs with reference to the phenomena pictured by them, could be carried...
Forwards the end is a description of the Physical Laboratory and of the Chemical Laboratory. Bo li of these buildings are of brick and are supplied with gas and steam throughout. The latter is fire-proof...
...astronomical observatory submitted its annual report to the visiting committee on Jan. 10. An urgent request is made for a fire proof building for the records of observations, valuable instruments and especially the collection of about 27.000 glass photographic plates representing the stars and spectra of both the northern and southern heavens, the results of observations in Peru. California and Cambridge. These are now stored in a frame building, the only one available where they could be destroyed by fire in a few minutes. Besides the plates there is a large collection of manuscripts which if once destroyed could never...
...that is to say, that the said corporation shall without unreasonable delay erect upon land belonging or to belong to it in a suitable and desirable situation an Art Museum to be called and known as the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum of Harvard College, to be a fire proof structure of ornamental and appropriate architecture to be used for the collection and exhibition of works of art of every description and for the education and enlightenment of the people in respect to art and the work of artists. So much of the legacy herein named as may judiciously...
...seventh number of the Advocate must be considered one of the best that has appeared this year. "One of the Unfit" is of exceptional merit. It gives proof of a power of analysis possessed by few and of an ability to make details and accessories contribute to the general tone of the story which gives it, in spite of its melancholy, a strange charm. The story has many points of resemblance with the "Decadence of Arthur Helmer" by the same writer in one of the last year's Advocates. It is fully equal to it, if it is not better...