Word: mt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often brought us delicious cakes, which had been sent him from his native country, and once he presented us with a small bag of dates and almonds sent him by the monks of Mt. Sinai, among whom he received his early education. The bag, in shape like a large sausage, was made of the prepared skin of some animal, into which the fruit and nuts had been pounded solidly. When eaten it was cut like an ordinary sausage and the skin peeled off. One evening he came to our house much terrified. He said that he had been attending...
...university and a large number of students. Appropriate music was furnished by the choir and by a quartette consisting of Messrs. McCagg, Eliot, Howe and Easton. Rev. Dr. Peabody officiated.-The pall bearers were President Eliot, and Professors Bown, Torrey, Lane and Goodwin, The remains were taken to Mt. Auburn for interment...
...Apostolides Sophocles died yesterday morning in his room in Holworthy at the age of seventy-six. For the last three years Professor Sophocles has been unable to take any active part in teaching on account of his continued ill-health. He was a Greek, his birth-place being near Mt. Pelion, in Thessaly, and received his early education in the convent on Mt. Sinai. When but a youth he emigrated to the United States, and in this country completed his education at Amherst College. He was tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became assistant professor...
...club table can be accommodated at Mrs. morgan's 97 Mt. Auburn...
...club table can be accommodated at Mrs. Morgan's 97 Mt. Auburn...