Word: levante
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MCNAMEE has just finished a beautiful example of a "Roger Payne" crushed levant binding. It is gilt top, uncut edges and very finely tooled with a lace pattern. It will be in Amee's bookstore window Harvard Sqr. for the next few days...
...Bancroft, of Phillips Academy, Andover, has been presented with a purse of money, to be spent in travel in Europe and the Levant...
...fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented by the Greek government; has in process of erection a commodious and solid building to cost twenty thousand dollars; posesses a library of between fifteen hundred and two thousand volumes; is free from debt, and has an established reputation. Cholera closed the Levant to travellers for one of these years; but no less than eighteen students have been in regular attendance and scores of travellers have enjoyed its advantages. received counsel in their sight-seeing, and disseminated its influences among their friends. The regular students are now instructors and investigators in their own land...
...Commissioners for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are thinking of establishing studentships, the holders of which shall engage to travel to Italy, Greece, or the Levant, and there devote themselves especially to the investigation of the local classical antiquities...