Word: reynoldses
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Damage to 150 University buildings in the two recent hurricanes came to "roughly $50,000," Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice president, reported yesterday.
Cecil A. Roberts, superintendent of buildings and grounds, filed his analysis of storm damage at the University with Reynolds yesterday, after compiling the report in the two weeks since the end of Hurricane Edna.
Earlier, Reynolds' assistant Charles C. Pyne had estimated "in terms of dollars the most extensive damage will be suffered by the trees." This would bring overall losses to at least $100,000. But Roberts said yesterday he thought damage to trees would prove somewhat less than that to buildings.
Exact costs on much of the repair work will not be known until the roof work is done, Reynolds said. Damage to most of the 150 buildings is not expected to be more than several hundred dollars each, Roberts estimated. Valuation of tree losses will depend largely on who makes...
Principal buildings to suffer in the storms were Memorial Hall, Peabody Museum and Matthews Hall. Practically all damage was to roofs. Reynolds placed the total inside loss through leakage at "less than $1,000." The only ceilings that were damaged were in Matthews and Emerson Hall.