Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Over 16,000 attended the different branches of the American University in France," he said. "At Beaune, where the instruction was given by American college men in the army, there were seven thousand men; in the French universities, where higher education was afforded, there were also seven thousand; finally in the English universities two thousand more were provided...
...Henry Kemble Oliver '52, who, unknown to the public, had endowed the Department of Hygiene at the University with several hundred thousand dollars a few years ago, died last Saturday, October 25. Dr. Oliver had all through his life been very interested in matters of student health at this University. This interest led him in his later years to give his entire fortune to the establishment of the chair of Hygiene, now occupied by Dr. Roger Irving...
...wager of several hundred thousand dollars was recently made in New York that that city would lead Boston at the finish of the drive by a million dollars, the loser paying the money to the fund...
...When an English merchant sends his goods forty miles across the channel into France, that is considered foreign trade. But when a New England manufacturer sends his products three thousand miles across the continent to California, it is merely interstate commerce. It is easy to see, therefore, that the volume of American commerce has been great, although it has not been specifically designated as foreign trade...
...Wendell bequest consists of 32,000 books and pamphlets dealing with the theatre, 100,000 play bills, 100,000 photographs of actors and actresses, 51,000 folios of sheet music and several hundred thousand prints and views dealing with the stage. There are approximately 500,000 items listed in the library acquired by the University, including much valuable non-dramatic material...