Word: british
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pres. Patton, of Princeton, according to the Yale men, is a British subject who has never sought naturalization in this country...
...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...
Then follows a minute description of the building for the British School, which is too long to be inserted here...
...occupied this 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...