Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rosy summer evening, fragrant with the scent of a thousand forests, breathes over hill and valley. A deep hush, big with thought, settles over the place and broods there, as if waiting to bring forth matters of moment...
...production will be set aside, the interest from it to be devoted to the founding and yearly maintenance of an Archaeological School at Athens. Other colleges, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell in particular, will be invited to subscribe to the fund, which will it is expected, reach twenty-five thousand dollars. The plan is then to secure a house in Athens, which shall be the head-quarters of American students who may go to Greece for archaeological work. Professors from the various colleges subscribing to the fund will have the direct supervision of the school. They will take turns...
THAT fifteen thousand blue-books are annually consumed in the examinations of Harvard College is hardly an extravagant statement, and although the trouble and annoyance entailed by the blue-book system cannot be expressed in digits, it is none the less very great. Every one of these fifteen thousand books has to be bought by a student, carried to the recitation or a professor's room before a fixed date, looked over by the instructor, and arranged in proper alphabetical order in the examination-room. This certainly involves an amount of labor enormous in the aggregate, on the part...
...FORTY thousand dollars has been offered Trinity for the erection of a new dormitory...
...thousand joys!" - ther steal away...