Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first session of the International Athletic Congress occurred at the Sorbonne, Paris, last Saturday afternoon. Baron de Courcel, who presided, outlined the purposes of the congress and stated that he hoped the delegates would endeavor to establish international athletic championships. Nearly three thousand persons were present, among them being Professor Sloane of Princeton...
...publication of the statistics of the senior class at Yale brings out a note-worthy fact. The average expenses for the course are stated as follows: For the freshman year, nine hundred and sixty-one dollars; for the sophomore, one thousand and ninety-nine; for the junior, twelve hundred and thirteen; and for the senior, twelve hundred and fifty-five. This in turn gives and average of eleven hundred and thirty-two dollars for each year...
...once arises how this compares with the average expenses at Harvard. To this question, no satisfactory answer can be secured, but some significant facts are available. An examination of the reports of the class secretaries of former years shows that the number of men who spent less than a thousand a year is nearly twice as large as the number who spent more than that amount, and that the number who spent over two thousand is small. President Eliot, moreover, says that in his judgment there is not one man in ten here whose father can, without exaggeration, be called...
...head of the University. It is a period of service remarkable alike for its length and for its importance in the University's development. The Harvard of 1894 is widely different from the Harvard of 1869. Then there were about one hundred members of the teaching staff and a thousand students; now there are over three hundred on the teaching staff and over three thousand students. To this growth, no other man has contributed so much as President Eliot...
...Austrian March, Zach. 2. Overture, "Freischutz," Weber. 3. Waltz, "Thousand and One Nights," Strauss. 4. Overture, "Tabasco," Chadwick. 5. Danse Macabre, Saint-Saens. 6. Ballet Music, "Boabdil:" (a) Prelude; (b) Malaguena;" Moszkowski. 7. Suite, "Peer Gynt:" (a) Aase's Death;" (b) In the Halls of the King of the Dovre Mountains. The Imps are chasing Peer Gynt; Grieg. 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire-charm, from "Die Walkure," Wagner. 9. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 10. Selection, "The Knickerbockers," De Koven. 11. Espana, Waldtenfel. 12. Persian March, Strauss...