Word: thereon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alabama claims pending before the court of commissioners were allowed, $20,000,000 would be required to pay the interest thereon...
Sarah Bernhardt's creditors in Paris have appeared in court with regard to the recent sale of her jewelry. It has been shown that the amount of money received therefor is insufficient to repay the sum loaned thereon...
...Senate yesterday finished consideration of the free-list portion of the tariff bill, adhering to its action of Wednesday placing books thereon...
...year, the only excitement being an occasional rush and a few stormy class-meetings. The apathy shown by the students is due largely to the fact that nearly the whole of the campus has been taken up by the new law School building, and the sons of Erin engaged thereon, and there being no place to congregate, the students, upon concluding their duties, immediately set out for home, except a few more sociably inclined, who gather in the offices of the Spectator and the Acta, where affairs collegiate are discussed...
...into the results of the system of compulsory studies there, at the time when Matthew Arnold was professor of poetry. He says: "The position (Mr. Arnold's) with its chance of influencing young men, seems an enviable one. But there are so many compulsory lectures at Oxford, and attendance thereon is such a weariness, that many, even of the undergraduates who care for literature, seldom go. I never, I am ashamed to say, availed myself of the opportunity of listening to Mr. Arnold, because his lectures were delivered in the afternoon, when cricket or the river seemed more attractive than...