Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most thankless task to perform in College is the director of the Reading-Room. It is with feelings of pity that we have noticed his crestfallen look after he has asked half a dozen men to subscribe and has received not a single name. He is one from whom much is required and to whom little is given. If the gas in the room is cut off, if each subscriber's pet paper is not furnished him, or if there is anything else which is not just as it should be, the director is called to account...
...used in this race, the position of the crews could not be ascertained till the last mile was entered upon, when the white shirts of Yale showed to the front, with Princeton a good second, and Brown last, steering very wildly. These positions were maintained till with in a dozen boat-lengths of the line, and Yale men on shore were beginning to count their winnings, when Princeton astonished everybody by putting on a wonderful spurt, which sent their boat swiftly to the front, and gave them the race by little more than one third of a length. Time...
...starboard," and at this time the Yale bow oar snapped, and Yale was out of the race. This foul took place according to a time calculation at the mile and a half point. Columbia had now a not-to-be-overcome lead, our crew having lost at least a dozen strokes by the foul. Wesleyan had also obtained a considerable lead, and, although the distance which separated the boats was steadily diminished during the rest of the race, Harvard did not again pass Wesleyan. Williams had meantime surprised everybody by taking the lead of the rear-guard, followed by Dartmouth...
...only been within the last dozen or twenty years that the custom has been observed in anything like the present style...
...there is now great need of an addition. In many instances it has been found necessary to heap the books on the floor. Files of important newspapers have to be stowed in out-of-the-way places, and we hear there is no room on the shelves for a dozen additional volumes. If an addition is to be made to Gore Hall, the sooner it is done the better. Each year increases the necessity and importance of such alterations...