Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...PAINTER.The third competition in pole-vaulting and shot-putting will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...School at Athens needs a fund of at least $100,000, to enable it to pay a proper salary to its director, to keep its library abreast of constantly advancing requirements, to meet other annual expenses, to take its due part occasionally in exploration and excavation, and to publish the results of its work. While the older French and German schools at Athens have been maintained for many years by the liberality of the two governments which founded them, we are proud to feel that we have a never-failing source of beneficence, richer and wiser in its liberality than...
...accomplished archaeologist, who now holds two important positions at the University of Cambridge, England, as lecturer on archaeology and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, but who is better known to us as a citizen of New York and a former student in Columbia College, has been asked to take the directorship of the School at Athens in October, 1888, when Professor Merriam's appointed year of office will end, on the condition that a permanent endowment for the School shall be secured before that time. Dr. Waldstein has accepted the invitation with this condition. It is obvious that there...
...following is taken from the introduction of the fifth edition of the "Origin of Species," 1859: "My work is now nearly finished; but as it will take me many more years to complete it, and as my health is far from strong, I have more especially been induced to do this as Mr. Wallace, who is now studying the natural history of the Malay Archipelago, has arrived at almost the same general conclusions that I have on the origin of species. In 1858 he sent me a memoir on this subject with a request that I would forward...
...much value. He himself says that the nine have remarkably good prospects for a successful season. The old superiority which Harvard has held at the bat bids fair to disappear from Cambridge, only to emerge in the vicinity of New Haven. The daily practice which the Yale men take in the cage, especially at the bat, has shown marked improvement since the beginning of winter, and if Yale's prospects were good in the fall, they now, at the beginning of spring, are better than any college ever had before, not even excepting Harvard a year ago. Kellogg...