Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thick, curling, chestnut hair," and is introduced talking with a "fine-looking young man, with dark side-whiskers," and "a smile which was strangely winning." They are sub-Freshmen who enter, agree to chum without having seen each other before, and whose adventures, together with those of about a dozen others, are given at length over five hundred and eighteen pages. Fifteen chapters are devoted to the Freshman, seven to the Sophomore, six to the Junior, and three to the Senior year...
There being no other State from which more than a dozen students have come to College, we cannot afford space to enlarge our list. If our readers desire further information, we shall be very glad to answer any questions they may ask us by letter or otherwise...
...supper, of which the uniquely shaped apple-tarts, which give the society its name, form the staple. There is in the same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation, the chief feature of which is, that the neophyte is obliged to eat a dozen tarts three inches in diameter in ten minutes, and to wash them down with six tumblers of Fresh Pond water. In Swiddle's case the water was dispensed with, owing to a recent drowning accident, and he ate eighteen tarts within the time, having forty-five seconds to spare. Swiddle...
...supposing that proctors had not perambulated the room during the examination, and that half a dozen students had taken advantage of their absence to make use of illicit help, and had thereby added ten per cent to their average by wrongful means, would this circumstance have outweighed the advantage which might have accrued to the feelings of confidence between instructor and students, resulting from the absence of proctors...
...room half dozing, and listen to the steps that come along the entry on their way to the rooms overhead. It is quite an instructive occupation too, presenting, as it does, a wide field for the cultivation of the listening faculty. In the course of a dozen or two such sittings, one gets to know the peculiarities of each individual step, and recognizes the passer-by as clearly as though the partition were transparent. When I hear various preliminary kicks at, and slams of, the neighboring doors, a shuffling step along the entry, a rattling of keys, a banging...