Memorial Hall Tower Fire [motion picture], 1956-09-06.

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Memorial Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Flood, Thomas N.

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On September 6, 1956, a fire destroyed the clock tower of Memorial Hall on the Harvard University campus. The hall had been built in 1874, and the tower modified by the addition of copper ornamentation in 1878 and the installation of four clock faces in 1897. Thomas Flood was a firefighter in the Cambridge Fire Department. Recently married in 1956, the Floods received the super-8 movie camera as a wedding present. From the description of Memorial Hall Tower Fire [motion picture], 195...