Word: returning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...language at all, is left in a strange country almost friendless, with a family of six small children to provide for. It is not as yet known how much property Professor Ko has left for the support of his family, but probably enough to provide for them until their return to China. We understand that Mrs. Ko will remain in this country three months, and then leave for China with the embalmed body of her dead husband...
...Yale, or Princeton; to suppose that men could do this, when they have an income of perhaps one or two hundred dollars, shows a lamentable lack of foresight. In many cases they are compelled to be within a few hours' ride from home, in order that they may return frequently to help support the family. No one, of course, can doubt for an instant that there can be derived many advantages from the Eastern colleges that are unattainable in the West; but the so-called Western colleges deserve respect and sympathy for, in a measure at least, affording...
Lost - Key to 32 Holyoke. Finder will please return it to the room...
...establishment of a free public library. The donor is Enoch Pratt, one of the trustees of the Peabody Institute. A building to cost $225,000 and to hold 200,000 volumes is being erected. The city receives the money to use as it chooses, but in return binds itself forever to pay an annuity of $50,000 for the support of this library...
...avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with their money. The boys are homesick for America. Their relatives taunt them with being "foreign devils." One of them writes: "I wish I could return to dear, philanthropic New England, where teachers are better than mothers, where friends are better than sisters, and classmates more agreeable than brothers." - [Cambridge Tribune...