Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tree. It is only natural that there should be an excited curiosity attending these exercises, for when one enters the enclosure one can never tell what one will see before one comes away. For the last few years past of what one has seen has been disgraceful. A certain amount of good, natural "scrapping" adds to the fun, but when men get to fighting so that their classmates have to pull them apart it is disgusting, and it must be especially so to the ladies, for whom these exercises are chiefly given. Again, when men go into the struggle wearing...
This year's freshman crew has made a better record than any freshman crew for some years. Apart from its prospects on the race, the crew will go down with all its expenses paid. The management has worked hard and has at last collected the necessary amount to carry the crew through the season. It has been no easy task and the manager deserves great credit. Then, also, by this means, the crew is enabled to go to New London a week earlier than many freshman crews...
...rooms of the Sigma Delta Chi, a Yale secret society, were burnt down on Monday. The damage will amount...
...work will consist of sixteen fortnightly themes which will be criticised in substantially the same way as English B themes, and there will be the regular conferences with the instructor. Besides this, there will be a certain amount of daily theme work similar to that in English 12. In the class room, lectures will be given on the different kinds of composition and passages from standard authors will be taken up and analyzed; themes also will be read and discussed and the students will be expected to take part in the discussion...
...last annual report of the college by comparison with previous reports brings out some rather interesting and decidedly significant facts as to the relative amount of time spent in the college on different studies. Statistics of this kind cannot be exact. They are based on the number of men taking respective courses, either elected or prescribed, and on the estimate held by college authorities of these courses. They give, however, a fair notion of the tendencies developed; and from 1825, the date of the first report issued, show an uninterrupted progress from the ancient to the modern, and from realms...