Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accounts of the temple at Epidauros are of a comparatively late date, and come mainly from Liny, Strabo and Pausanias. Sulla plundered it in 87 B. C., to get money to pay his soldiers, and the temple never entirely recovered from his raid, although in the second century of our era enjoyed the favor of Antoninus Pius, who built baths within its precincts. After that the darkness of the middle ages settled upon Epidauros, and we do not hear of it again until the latter part of the last century, when it was visited first by Richard Chandler, and afterwards...
Efforts are being made at Princeton to raise the money for a new base ball cage to take the place of the one destroyed last spring...
Columbia has two scholarships in architecture, one to be known as "The Columbia Fellowship in Architecture," available every year and amounting to $1.300, the other to be known as "The McKim Fellowship in Architecture," available every other year, and amounting to $1,000. The money in both cases must be used in foreign travel and study...
...were favorably received. In his report to parliament Lord Elgin estimated the expense at L50,000 and besides this he was out of pocket L20,000 interest. He received for his trouble only L35,000 there by recovering only half his expenses. From this report it appears that more money was spent in this work than in the entire excavation of Olympic which lasted six years...
...principal donors to the library have been Dr. Alfred Stille, who presented a splendid collection of books, numbering 3000 volumes, and 5000 unbound volumes and pamphlets, and Dr. William Pepper, provost of the university, who more recently gave the greater portion of his own medical library; $15,000 in money has also been received, and one half of it expended in the erection of the new library building, while the other half is to be retained as the nucleus of an endowment fund for the purchase of books and medical journals...