Word: desertions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President McCosh has returned from his trip to Mt. Desert and the mountains, and is now settled in his new house. It is said to be the finest dwelling in Princeton. Dr. McCosh is at present engaged on a philosophical work which will be his "Maximum Opus...
...Rider Haggard's latest novel, the tattooing on the shoulders of the heroine of the will of a rich old man cast away on a desert island is made the startling and essential incident of the story...
...than the European quarter of the city. The streets are broad and the houses and grounds beautiful in this new part. The best view is obtained from the citadel which overhangs the city on the south. From here can be seen the far stretching plains, the Nile and the desert, with the pyramids beyond and close beneath domes and minarets of the city. The Moslem University, or Mosque of Azhar, was founded 900 years ago and has several thousand pupils, who pay no tuition; nor do the shieks, or professors, receive any salaries. The course is usually three years...
...department, took place in Sever 11 last night. The subject was a historial novel called "Antar, a Bedouin Romance," written during the reign of Haroun all Raschid, and, as it is 4,000 pages long, only selected translations could be given. This poem depicts the wild life of the desert, such as the Iliad affords us of the life of the ancient Greeks. Antar was a real character, and his fame as a warrior and poet was long preserved by tradition. Singlehanded he put hundreds to flight, and with a few followers dispersed the armies of Chosroes, King of Persia...
...done which have been postponed from day to day, and are never accomplished until vacation comes. One day of rest, too, from the monotonous routine work of this season of the year, would be greeted with that same feeling of sublime relief with which the traveller of the desert is said to be imbued when he perceives the green oasis rising 'midst the Saharan sands. It has been urged in some quarters that a recess of one day would be worse than useless, and that the day would be literally wasted. This is not so, however, for in our belief...