Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Assyrian scholars, as well as by a photographer, etc. Nothing but well-known obstacles presented by the Turkish of ficials seem to stand in the way of success. Babylonia is covered with large artificial mounds marking the ruins of palaces, temples and cities, still burying libraries and sculptures of priceless value. Few of these have yet been touched by the spade of the European...
...century old, and has had among its members such a noted man as Professor Agassiz, Professor Shaler and Professor Gray. It occupies handsome rooms in the eastern end of Massachusetts Hall, where a growing collection of minerals, reptilia and birds; and a valuable library which contains an almost priceless edition of Auduboni's birds. The society meets fortnightly for the discussion of congenial topics and is in a prosperous condition. It has given in the past several lectures - those by Profs. Trelease and Muybridge being eminently successful. If the society continues in its present flourishing condition, we may expect...
...professors more; and living at Cornell is cheaper than here. All these advantages over us may in time make her a strong rival. But in spite of lack of means, poorly paid professors, and the high cost of living here, Harvard still has the priceless advantage of being the oldest seat of learning in the country. She has the largest and most famous body of alumni. Then in common with Yale and all the older colleges, she has gathered about her name a mass of tradition and sentiment which will ever charm the imagination, and waken the enthusiasm...
They also recognize the priceless legacy to the youth under their charge and to themselves, of his example of a faithful, laborious, and self-denying life, steadfastly devoted to high ends, and accomplishing its great results with little aid, except from his own courage, patience and filial piety...
...students in college little realize what a priceless boon has been extended to them. A firm has been established in Chicago known as the "Student's Literary Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...