Word: million
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Philadelphia Museum is now being built upon a lot of ground opposite Franklin Field. It is designed when completed to cost five million dollars, and is intended to contain, besides the collections owned by the city, the wonderful series of Babylonian relics, secured by Professor Hilprecht, and rivalled in value by the collection in Constantinople alone...
...five institutions: The Mass. General Hospital, the Homeopathic Hospital, the Boston Art Museum, Mass. Institute of Technology and Harvard. It has taken some time to arrange the provisions of the will, but it is now certain that these five institutions will receive not far from three-quarters of a million each. The Corporation of the University has not as yet planned any definite purpose for the use of this rich endowment. A part will doubtless go to the enlargement of the Library, while the rest will be devoted to widening the scope of the various departments...
...well as of other buildings of the famous Brick Row. It is pointed out that during the past ten years fifteen new university buildings have been erected, five enlarged and altered, and one purchased, while gifts of all kind in the same time amount to more than four million dollars...
...battery. Instead of the 20,000 volts which were before considered necessary, he has found that 100,000 are needed to produce the flash, and that with increasing voltage the picture becomes steadily plainer. This current, acting through one ten-millionth of a second, develops one million horse power...
...forcibly the great need of additional endowments to the University's material resources "if the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education is to be maintained. As the report points out the total of gifts and bequests in the last three years was something above half a million, while "during the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments." The enormous single gifts to Columbia and the youthful but rich University of Chicago throw the benefactions to Harvard into insignificance. In the recent gift...