Word: siam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue in favor of opening it, in spite of the anathema carved on the tombstone. Frank Vincent, Jr., whose travels in Burmah and Siam make him an authority on the subject, will have a paper on "White Elephant," maintaining that a white elephant has never been allowed to leave Asia...
Students have been received at Wesley College from all the states and territories excepting Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and New Mexico. They have been received from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Mexico, Chili, Turkey, India, Siam, China, Japan, South Africa, Micronesia, and Sandwich Islands. The number of students registered the present collegiate year is five hundred and one. Over eighteen hundred have registered since the college opened. [Wesley Courant...
College students in Siam are allowed two wives. This is the Siamese method of hazing...
There are 485 students at Wellesley, of whom 315 are in the regular course, while 170 take special courses. Nearly every State in the Union is represented. New England sends 215 students, and the Middle and Western States 238. Mexico, Chili, Sandwich Islands, Turkey, Siam, Japan and South Africa are represented. - [Wellesley Courant...