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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...evident that even if the means were at hand to erect such a building as is wanted, the Corporation ought to have an additional fund of half a million to provide for an enlarged expenditure for administration; and that a million would be required to make the Library independent of the College and enable it to carry on its work easily and effectively...
...Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature...
...Again it looked as if it were in the remote future that this expectation could be indulged. Two million dollars seemed to be the cost of this group of buildings, with the grading and other provisions for their...
...first line of this despatch, gentlemen, conveys a great deal.--'Referring to our conversation and the plans submitted.' The plans submitted involve an expense of more than a million dollars...
...United States and chilian commission in Washington on January 30. Professor Strobel pointed out that it was not within the range of the Commission, and by the discharge of the case last Friday for want of jurisdiction, won the case for Chill and saved the Government nearly a million dollars. The Commission was composed of the Chilian Minister, who acted as Commissioner for Chili, Judge Gage of Michigan, who acted as United States Commissioner, and the Swiss Minister, the president of the board. This is the most important case with which they have had to deal. A full analysis...