Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...methods of supporting educational institutions-public taxation, private endowment and the fees paid by the pupils, Of the colleges of the country, the majority are supported by endowment and the fees of the pupils, while a few are state institutions and are maintained by public taxation. It has been found that when no fees have been required from the students the work is unsatisfactory, but when the students pay for the instruction they are receiving, the work is much better...
...baffled hope yet found the Holy Grail...
...Found.- A plush bag. Owner can have it by applying to J. W. Brine's 436 Harvard...
...excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which is now known as Babylonia and Assyria. Throughout the whole of this region traveling is difficult and dangerous, and although great efforts have been made by enthusiastic archaeologists, little has been accomplished when compared with the vast amount...
...first American expedition was formed and it succeeded in unearthing some of the rarest of all the specimens of tablet-writing, and of the half-human half-beast figures of which there were found many in the excavations. At present a body of American gentlemen, of which Prof. Peters of the University of Pennsylvania is the head, is engaged in discoveries in Babylonia...