Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...held in Cambridge, Edgar R. Champlin L. '80, mayor during the past year, was re-elected yesterday. He defeated his principal opponent, David T. Dickinson '88, by a majority of about eight hundred votes. The city voted no-license for the fourteenth successive year by a majority of one thousand. W. H. Lewis L. '95, Thorndike Spalding '95, J. D. Merrill '89, and Stoughton Bell '96, were elected members of the Common Council...
...felt certain that the Spaniards were whipped. After the battle was won a blockade of the city was made, and as the insurgents soon surrounded it on the land, the Spaniards were effectually hemmed in. Later, when it was seen that a long stay would be made, a thousand natives were hired at the arsenal, and work began with great energy. The natives, who are a turbulent set of half breeds, of some education, but totally unfitted to govern themselves, had, through association with the Spanish, become lazy and shiftless. A few months of American rule, however, cured them...
...plan which Mr. Gordon has proposed and which has been adopted by the Museum, involves the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the ruins in the Copan valley and comprising several thousand acres, and the building of a house thereon to serve as headquarters for exploration from year to year. The runs will furnish an abundant supply of building stone ready at hand, and the forests of pine, cedar and mahogany growing on the land will afford a supply of building material which will be found convenient, in the absence of facilities for transportation...
...University of Michigan has recently set aside the sum of two thousand dollars for a new course in marine engineering which will require five years of residence at the university to entitle the student to the degree of Master of Science in engineering...
...mass meeting of students, Robert K. Gailey, Seminary '96, who is working among the colleges in China, was selected as the representative of the university in the foreign field. One thousand dollars will be raised by the undergraduates for his support...