Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will of the late Benjamin Thompson, of Durham, N. H., his entire estate, valued at five hundred thousand dollars, is left to found an agricultural college in New Hampshire. Conditions are annexed, and if they are not complied with the money comes to Massachusetts for the same purpose. In the event of neither of these states complying with the conditions the money goes to the state of Michigan...
...could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human life at its best," says some one of the Odyssey, and surely no better epithet can be applied to the great author than that which Hallam applied to Shakespeare, "thousand-souled," the thousand-souled Homer...
Haverford college has purchased the library of the German scholar, Dr. Gustave-Bauer, of Leipsic. The library consists of eighty thousand volumes and is a very fine collection of ecclesiastical literature...
...will of Charles Dudley March, '80, who died very suddenly in Paris a few years ago, the college has received recently a library of about one thousand volumes, together with a lot of pictures. The books are all excellent editions of standard authors, and are bound well. Mr. March was a student of the Romanic languages, so that French, Spanish and Italian literature are well represented...
...University of Berlin has seven thousand two hundred and eighty-six students matriculated this year. Of this number 632 are foreigners and 6654 are Germans. It is estimated that during the past year the number of students in attendance at the German universities has more than doubled...