Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vosburg, '90; J. W. Walker, '91; E. M. Post, '92; School of Mines: H. C. Pelton, '89; S. R. Bradley,'90; W. R. Robertson, '91; J. S. Langthorne, '92; School of Law: P. E. Lamarche; Medical School: D. Ewell. The intention of the organization is to raise about one thousand dollars and to put a team into training quarters about the middle of September, about three weeks before college opens. Before adjourning the association passed a motion favoring the appointment by the Alumni Association of an advisory committee on athletics...
...works, bags of potatoes taken from the peasants who were hurrying into Paris, were used instead of bags of earth, and so great was the lack of provisions among the soldiers that they were forced actually "to eat their defences." Although there were between two and three hundred thousand men around Paris, the number of real soldiers was not more than forty thousand. Among the troops the National Guard of Paris was conspicuous for their bravery and the efficiency of their service. This body was made up of the young men of Paris, who were not at all inured...
...large stack, able to contain about 500,000 volumes. The new reading-room is to be connected with Gore Hall by means of archways, and is to contain about 30,000 reference works in wall book-cases. The amount of money needed would be about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and although the president and fellows are quite unable to provide anything like the required sum, nevertheless, judging from precedent-money for the new medical school, for the museum for the botanical department, and the funds for the maintenance of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, which were all raised...
...Wigmore, H. U. '83, L. S., '87, has just published a very noticeable book on the "Australian Ballot System." Mr. Wigmore was recently awarded the one thousand dollar prize offered by the Medico-Legal Society of New York for the best essay on the subject: "Circumstantial Evidence in Poison Cases...
...Over a thousand invitations were sent out for the junior ball, which was one of the most successful social events ever held in the College Hall...