Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Temporary repairs will shortly be made to the roof of Massachusetts Hall, badly damaged in last Sunday morning's fire, by reshingling it and making it water tight. More definite and lasting steps toward its reconstruction, however, will not be taken until summer...
...yesterday insurance men were endeavoring to discover the cause of the fire, but in vain. They found that the damage was such that a complete new roof will have to be built. The Department of Economics has been temporarily obliged to use other offices and the 47 Workshop to hold their rehearsals elsewhere...
Flames issuing from the roof of Massachusetts. Hall caused an undergraduate in Matthews to turn in an alarm at 9.15 yesterday morning. Soon after the fire apparatus arrived a crowd of under-graduates and professors, including President Lowell, surrounded the building. Although the conflagation was entirely confined to the rafters, a large part of the building was damaged by water. The total destruction, according to an estimate made by Mr. W. S. Burke, inspector of the grounds and buildings, did not exceed...
...fire was first discovered after it had eaten its way through a portion of the roof on the southern side of the building. For over half an hour the flames crept eastward, practically destroying that end of the roof. The office of the Department of Economics, which is directly beneath the burned portion of the roof, was very badly damaged by water. Fortunately all the valuable documents, including three sole copies of Ph.D. theses, were rescued in time. A good deal of the wall had to be torn down in an endeavor to trace the source of the fire...
...likely explanation lays the cause of the fire to a nest, built by either birds or mice, in which a match might have been used in the process of construction and then accidently ignited. Another fireman suggested that the workmen who had been repairing the southern side of the roof the evening before might have carelessly dropped a match or a cigarette. The chief, however, regarded it unlikely that the fire could have smoldered so long without breaking...