Word: million
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professor upon the Yale Faculty is stated to be worth a million dollars...
That the sum of Professor Agassiz's gifts to the university amount to over half a million dollars, and entitle him to be called one of the greatest benefactors of Harvard...
...Russian will not keep anybody from competing, for there will be plenty of time to learn that language before 1925, the year when the prize will be awarded. There is no reason whatever why some member of English 5 or 12 should not be the happy owner of the million dollars...
...banks of their patron river. Of the Museums, the Fitzwilliam is the chief, noted for its fine collection of engravings, while many a fine piece of statuary can be found in its halls. The Senate House, dreaded by the incoming freshman, and the University Library, with its half million volumes, among them an original MSS on vellum of the four Gospels and the book of Acts of the Apostles, next meet one's attention. The largest, if not the finest college is Trinity, which claims to be the largest in Europe. Ex tending on both sides of the street...
...report of Prof. Pickering detailing the work done at the Observatory during the past year was presented Wednesday to the regular visiting committee of the overseers. The most noticeable feature of the report is the cry for money, the three million cry of President Eliot. A temporary endowment of $5000 a year expires now and the work of the observatory will be seriously crippled in future unless a large increase is made in the permanent endowment or unlocked for contributions and bequests are regularly made for running expenses. How much this loss of the temporary endowment is, can be realized...