Show Suing Harvard College For S5OOOO I BOSTON Sept 29 Francis R Brooks of I Chicago formerly a student at Harvard College has commenced suit against the college I col-lege to recover 850000 damages Brooks I was engaged in performing an experiment I in the chemical laboratory when a retort containing sulphuric acid which he was using exploded and he was terribly burned One of his eyelids was burned off and his face was otherwise mutilated and torn the disfigurement being permajjent It is claimed by plaintiff that the experiment was being performed under the direction of a professor and that he supposed he was working in safety and that through the carelessness care-lessness of the professor in charge the accident acci-dent occurred |