Word: isabella
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plans for the new Princeton infirmary, to be known as the Isabella McCosh Infirmary, have been lately approved and made public by the trustees. This building will fill a long-felt need at Princeton for cases of sickness among the students. The proposition to start a fund for an infirmary was made last year by Dr. Murray, the dean of the college. The $25,000 needed for the building has been raised, and $20,000 more will probably be subscribed as a fund for its support...
...money and for recognition of his services to Spain which disclosed to the court that he was an insincere man and not capable of following out to advantage the discoveries he had made. This is the reason why he was not treated with more consideration by Ferdinand and Isabella. Speaking of his weaknesses Dr. Winsor says: "When we view the character of Columbus in its influence upon the minds of men, we find some strange anomolies. Before his passion was tainted with the ambition of wealth, and its consequence, and while he was urging the acceptance of his views...