Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...country have entered their names, and the meeting will probably be one of the most successful ever held by any college. The Charles River Park is admirably adapted for bicycle racing, having been built especially for that purpose, with raised track, and the covered grand stand will seat several thousand...
...daily being added to the large number already in the Fogg Art Museum. In a few departments the collections are not quite complete and these deficiencies are rapidly being filled. Among the latest acquisitions are three hundred and fifty photographs of French Renaissance architecture and sculpture, and about one thousand illustrating the Venetian school of painting. The model of one corner of the Parthenon, which was constructed by Professor H. L. Warren, of the architectural department, has been set up in the large down stairs room. This model is made so as to show the construction of the Parthenon...
Many new acquisitions are now on the road for the museum, chief among which is a cast of Michael Angelo's famous "Madonna and Child," in the Church of S. Lorenzo in Florence. Among other things which are expected is a collection of between one thousand and fifteen hundred photographs, illustrating architecture and sculpture in Southern Italy and Sicily. A collection of photographs illustrating the Dutch school of painting is also...
Chicago University has arranged a movable observatory, to be used in Mexico for making studies of the planet Mars. Six hundred thousand dollars has already been expended on its construction and equipment...
...Waltz, "Thousand and One Nights," Strauss...