Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thousand two hundred eggs were devoured at luncheon in Memorial Hall yesterday...
...following colleges have more than a thousand students, Harvard 1690, Columbia 1489, University, of Michigan 1475, Oberlin 1302, Yale 1134, Northwester 1100, University of Pennsylvania...
Only two short poems appear in this number. "I Fought a Thousand Battles" is a very smooth and delicate piece of verse, teaching in an easy style a deep moral truth. The only piece of society verse is "A Serenade." Its style is graceful, yet it lacks, as society verse is apt to do, sufficient motive for its production...
...Grant's birthday, April 27th, with appropriate ceremonies. President Spence will preside. Judge Rea, of Minnesota, Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repulic, will deliver the oration. The University was founded in 1867, General Grant contributing the first cash donation. It has turned out over a thousand preachers and teachers, and owns property valued...
Colonel T. W. Higginson, in his lecture last evening in Sever 11, said that the number of men actually engaged in literature as a profession in the United States was small, and, even with the addition of the journalists, amounted to only thirteen thousand. This is not remarkable, as the profession of literature is of recent origin, and only the vast extension of printing in the last forty years has rendered it possible. Every man must choose his occupation with reference to his own natural gifts. If wealth is the only object of life, not literature but all the professions...