Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year's team, without hope of reward, but out of pure college enthusiasm raised their college ten thousand points in the struggle for the championship. Thus for this reason as well as to encourage men to train next year, this year's team ought to be recognized and given appropriate insignia. Yours respectfully...
...Athletic Association, the Barber, and transient visitors for bedrooms. Also a share in the profits of the billiard-rooms, cigar and news stands, etc. The amount of these last items is particularly uncertain, and the committee do not feel justified in making an estimate of more than six thousand dollars for the whole...
...means of observations and photographs, the observatory is making a careful study of the new star, discovered last Friday night. The star is now very nearly ten thousand times as bright as it was a week ago and its brilliancy is likely to begin decreasing at any time, although it is impossible to predict changes with the least degree of certainty. Very conspicuous changes, however, plainly visible to the eye, are likely to take place within the week...
...idea of God which the Hebrews held was as literal a discovery as that of gravitation by Newton or of America by Columbus. This monotheistic idea seems to us now most natural, but nearly three thousand years ago its discovery by the Hebrews was most remarkable and its influences most important...
When Mr. James H. Hyde gave the library for the new Harvard Union a short time ago, he also gave $20,000 as a fund for the purchase of books and for the maintenance of the library. Of this some four or five thousand will be needed immediately to start the library, but after that only the interest, amounting to about $800 annually, will be used in purchasing books. After the necessary books of reference and magazines have been bought, the committee purposes to pay especial attention to the collection of books of sport and novels, so that men will...