Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brains in perfect isolation, their climate equable for work, their minds bent on the sole task of learning and teaching. Parents from all parts of the Empire, from Lake Titicaca on one hand to Gar-liccodor in the South, at great sacrifice and expense send their children to this fortress of wisdom. . . . It is said," he continues, (facetiously, no doubt) "that on their periodic visits at home these youthful prodigles are inconsolable, and spend their time bemoaning the length of their vacations, which keep them from their beloved halls of knowledge." His entertaining narrative goes on to describe in glowing...
...group of buildings in the distance before us, standing on high ground, surrounded by a high wall, and silhouetted against the sky. As we drew nearer, we could see signs of what the buildings had suffered, during the Turkish bombardment, when the French held the college as a fortress. The north wall of one building had a place as large as a room blown out of it. On another building the windows met, because the intervening wall had been shot away...