Word: roof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tonight the Freshman smoker in the Union offers the first opportunity for the entire class to gather under one roof and in the name of good fellowship to overcome an obstacle in the path of future success. The committee has provided all manner of entertainment calculated to appeal to the masculine heart but the value of the evening depends solely on every man in the class contributing his presence. The Fates have done their best to keep the class apart. Here is a chance for the Freshmen to put one over on the Fates, May they make the most...
...Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament, Hotel Astor Roof-garden New York City...
...entire attic and most of the third floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time the roof had completely gone, together with most of the furnishings in the upper floor...
...rooms on the ground floor there is a pathetic relic of Rheims Cathedral, which has recently been sent to the Museum by a French friend of the University, who was here last year. It is a bit of molten lead which had fallen down from the roof on to the pavement, catching one or two little scraps of stone work in its fall. The relic has sentimental but not artistic value...
...decision of the court in favor of the trustees of the estate. The trustees objected to the use which the University made of the $5,500,000 received by it, and maintained that the intention of Mr. McKay was being defeated by carrying on the engineering courses under the roof of Technology instead of in the buildings and under the sole direction of the University...