Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from the pen of Harvard professors. Professor Charles Eliot Norton contributes a charming sketch entitled "Rawdon Brown and the Gravestone of 'Banished Norfolk,' " in which he describes Mr. Brown's antiquarian works in Venice. Professor C. H. Toy has an article on the origin and history of "The Thousand and One Nights." The mixed Indian and Persian and Arabian character of the stories is traced. Professor Royce publishes his second paper of "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Australasia" which is fully as thoughtful and interesting as the first. The rest of the number is full of interest. The serials...
...Fifty thousand dollars of the one hundred and fifty thousand needed to purchase the site of ancient Delphi has been raised...
...hundred thousand dollars is being raised to endow a chair of Protection in Yale, to combat the Free Trade theories advanced by Professor Sumner...
...price of the launch was $3250, but not all of that amount has been obtained. A petition was sent among some of the alumni by the boat club, asking for aid, and by these means over two thousand dollars were raised, which with the cash already on hand will pay the debt within three or four hundred dollars...
...performance of the Columbia College Dramatic club at the Berkeley Lyceum, last week, netted the university crew nearly two thousand dollars, and the freshman crew about three hundred...