Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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University, the new magazine, offers two prizes of $250 each-one for the best prose paper and the other for the best production in verse. Competition is open to students in regular standing of any American college, and articles must be sent in before July...
...committee on the American School believe that it is desirable, for the interest of both schools, that their respective buildings should be in close proximity. They are assured of the cordial co-operation of the committee on the British School in their common work, and it is their confident hope that the advantages afforded by either school to its pupils will be freely shared by the pupils of both...
...estimate for the building of the British School be adopted for that of the American, the sum of $20,000 will be required. The annual interest upon this sum is not greater than the amount now paid for rent. A suitable building of its own will not only add to the dignity of the School, but will secure it against the chance of hereafter having to change its quarters, with the inevitable attendant expenses, and risk of injury to its library and other property...
...obligations to Professor Ware. He has prepared its construction without charge. The sole responsibility for a trust of unusual difficulty has rested upon him. He has successfully overcome all obstacles as they have arisen, and has substantially lessened the cost of the building by enlisting the interest of many American manufacturers who have supplied material. No one else is so well prepared to speak about the building, and at my request he has prepared the following account, which he permits the committee to make a part of this report...
...spot. In the central portion is a small park, and above this and the open grounds of the hospital is the plot of ground, containing about three acres, which the Greek Government, with a liberality which has characterized all its relations to them, has given to the British and American schools. The lower part of this space is occupied by a sparse grove of olive trees, and the buildings of the two schools stand near one another at the highest part of the field, about 400 feet above the Aegean, the British School next to the Normal School, the American...