Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given the severity of the storm, it is not unreasonable to expect some flooding, but the extreme amount of leakage seen this past weekend indicates that Harvard needs to renovate the superstructures of many of its buildings to prevent such occurrences in the future. Additionally, while many of the buildings that leaked this past weekend are normally waterproof, others have a long and unresolved history of leakage. For instance, the basement of Thayer hall, which was soaked by this last storm, also leaked during the summer, damaging some computers belonging to the Harvard Model Congress...
...windows and walls. The fact that some buildings have been known to leak in the past and haven't been repaired is even more egregious. We urge Harvard to reimburse students for all reasonable losses, and then to get on the ball and waterproof its property before the next storm washes us all into the Charles River...
Lamont Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson, the master of Winthrop House, said everythings is back to normal. "In the basement, we had considerable damage [during] a previous storm about a month ago," Hanson said. "We took the precaution then of putting everything important above floor level...
...Harvard men's soccer team's game against Northeastern scheduled for yesterday was cancelled due to the large pool of water in the middle of Ohiri Field left over from Sunday's storm. No makeup date has been set as of yet. Harvard next goes to Princeton this weekend for a Saturday night game...
...storm forced Dunster House resident Rebecca J. Lowenhaupt '99 to rearrange her room...