Word: collections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Monier Williams, the famous professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, has had a very successful visit in India. The main purpose of his journey was to obtain funds for his great Indian Institute at Oxford, and more especially endowments for scholarships, and also to collect objects for his Indian Museum. In this latter respect he has been most fortunate, and has received, among other curiosities, two great doors, ornamented with beautiful brass work hammered into the wood...
much disturbance. A procession of boys, arranged in military order and headed by a "captain," used to march on Whit Tuesday with flags and music to a small hill or mount outside of the village, and there collect toll or "salt" from the bystanders and passers by, sometimes getting in this way over $5,000. After deducting a certain amount from this sum to cover expenses, the surplus was handed over to the happy "captain of the school...
...publisher in New York, and a recent graduate of Princeton, who is proprietor of the Inter-collegiate Book Exchange, will be at the Co-operative office each day until Monday, May 5th, to make exchanges of books with Harvard students. The Society's errand-boy can be employed to collect books. The superintendent suggests that members who have unsolvable books on sale at the office with draw them and exchange for new books if the opportunity seems to be a good...
...publisher in New York, and a recent graduate of Princeton, who is proprietor of the Inter-collegiate Book Exchange, will be at the Co-operative office each day until Monday, May 5th, to make exchanges of books with Harvard students. The Society's errand-boy can be employed to collect books. The superintendent suggests that members who have unsolvable books on sale at the office withdraw them and exchange for new books if the opportunity seems to be a good...
Pach Brothers will send a man today to collect the order lists, and they request '84 men to have them ready...