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...merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace while the lava was rising. But this is the hundredth case, the solitary exception to the general run. And herein lies the merit of the story. All the details are so worked out that when we come to the climax, all the actions seem perfectly natural. Under such circumstances, such a man could not help acting thus. All the circumstances...
...five hundredth anniversary of Heidelberg University, will occur the second week of August this year...
Peterhouse College, the oldest of the seventeen colleges in the Cambridge University, has just celebrated the six hundredth anniversary of its founding...
Peterhouse College, the oldest of the seventeen colleges in Cambridge University, England, has just celebrated the six hundredth anniversary of its founding. It was founded in the reign of King Edward...
...official catalogues of the university, he said, declare that its natal year was 1636, and this date has been recognized as the true one by successive historians of the college and of New England; and in 1836 the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of this institution was commemorated. It was during the governorship of Sir Henry Vane, and during his auspices, that the college was instituted by the Massachusetts Assembly, which it has been said, was the first body by which the people through their representatives, ever gave their own money to found a place of education. John Harvard...