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...cold asphalt pavement, often in puddles of water left by other fellows. Now a slat floor laid on joists over the concrete and made in sections so as to be easily taken up would be far more comfortable to the feet, and would shed all waste water. How the thousand or more bathers would appreciate such an inexpensive improvement...
...realize that Armenia is now and has long been the scene of horrible cruelty, savage ferocity, and brutal lust, such as is unsurpassed in the history of the relations of man to man. It is no exaggeration to say that in about a year and a half sixty thousand martyrs have suffered at the hands of the fierce Turks. No longer ago than Saturday there came news of further outrages by the Kurds in the valley of the Euphrates, the destruction of a whole town and the exile of its inhabitants, the slaughter of 1500 people, and the wounding...
...last Saturday night a little more than a thousand men had signed for lockers in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...prizes, viz., a first prize of not less than one thousand, and a second prize of not less than four hundred dollars, to be known as the Loubat Prizes, shall be awarded in the year 1898, and in every fifth year thereafter, to the author of the best works on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology, or numismatics of North America. The competition for these prizes shall be open to all persons, whether citizens of the Unites States or of any other country...
...university club canvass has been carried on as long as it has seemed desirable, with the result that over one thousand names have been entered in favor of the project. These will be reported to the graduate committee and probably classified so as to show the proportion of "society" and "non-society men in the number...