Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...economy of each student," and again "wood and coal ready for use are delivered at the students' rooms, by Cambridge and Brighton dealers, at market prices." "Good tobacco at Whiton's" might be added. At the Divinity School we learn that "washing is done for seven-five cents per dozen pieces," and at the Lawrence Scientific School and the Bussey Institution it is calculated that this item amounts to from $19 to $38 a year...
...have served for half a dozen years on the academical examining committee appointed by the Harvard Overseers, and have been assigned, during several of these years, to the sub-committee on Greek. I confidently assert that Harvard College produces better Greek scholars than it produced thirty years ago. That the general interest in Greek is less cannot be doubted; but the repeated evidence of the aforesaid examining committee shows that this is not true of Greek alone, but of all purely literary studies, English not excepted. This is due partly to the great scientific advances made during the last...
...leaked out upon the prairies of Illinois. Let every Senior, therefore, begin immediately on his three-and-one-half-minute performance. Yet, if it is not too late, we would humbly suggest that there is one serious objection to the innovation. The present Senior Class numbers 192; deducting a dozen as an allowance for those who will pass degree-less from these halls, 180 will graduate; 180 X 3 1/2 minutes = 10 1/2 hours, which is rather a long time for men to sit listening to "parts," - and men, too, who have generally been thought to be somewhat interested...
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...that a man who had ever succumbed to the influence of liquor deserved to be excluded from the society of civilized Christians. I am also familiar enough with the phenomena of the beginning of a Freshman-year, to understand that you have probably been invited already to about a dozen punches, from which many of your classmates had to be carried home to bed. Many of these men, too, are probably agreeable, well-bred fellows, who in their sober moments bear no more resemblance to a beast than you do. And very likely you find yourself in a predicament...