Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prominent member of '88 is reported to be reading through the Encyclopedia Brittanica. His has finished the third volume, and is now on the fourth...
...that before he reached the great city, only to drop dead in the street, that resolute soul was convulsed with some awful agony. Unnamed and unknown, he will lie in the public pits of Pere Lachaise, and his picture will be added to those in the entrance hall. The fourth body is that of a young man, which was found naked in the river. Perhaps he was drowned while swimming; perhaps some sombre crime is involved in his fate. All is wrapped in mystery...
...fourth concert of the series was given last night in Sanders' Theatre, before the largest audience that has hitherto attended these concerts...
...other colleges have passed their ordeals. The semi-annual examination has just been ended at the military academy at West Point. Considerable surprise is expressed over the result, there being a very large number of cadets who failed to pass. Five were sent back from the third to the fourth class, and the fourth class lost a quarter of its whole membership. The first class is a small one, there being only 30 members. All of them are likely to graduate in June next. The second class stood the ordeal well. It has the largest membership of that class ever...
...library and reading-room. This is fitted up with reading desks and writing taoles. A row of bookcases surrounds the room. There is a medical society in connection with the school, that holds fortnightly meetings here, at which papers on practical subjects are read and discussed. On the fourth floor is a room for the assistant house surgeons, and the museum. While the two departments, academic and hospital, are together, they are separated so that the students enter the academical department from Lucas street and have that part of the building at their disposal, but they obtain admission...