Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Wednesday afternoon half a dozen Sophomores made a bet of a wine supper with some of their comrades, that they could pass entirely through the Fifth Ward with orange ribbons in their button-boles. They had got nearly through when a crowd pitched into them, and they ignominiously fled, but ran on in the direction in which they had been going, got through...
...hands of the people. A few weeks ago the Magenta published an article of similar import. It was written by some enthusiast, who desired the formation of a political club, where the leading questions of the day could be discussed and settled by the wise brains of a dozen students...
...Before the Courier comments on any other sheet, let it show a cleaner face and more intelligence than can be shook out of the aggregate calibre of the half-dozen human puppets who form its editorial staff...
...prospects of the University Crew seem favorable. There are a dozen men working hard for positions upon it. A welcome bit of news is that the old rowing-weights are to be abandoned, and in their place a new style, greatly superior, substituted. This new rowing apparatus will be, as far as the kind of work goes, the same as that in the boat. What is to all intents and purposes an oar will be used, and this, at the end near the fulcrum, is attached to a piston. When the power is exerted, the piston is made to force...
FIRST and foremost, a word to some half-dozen Exchanges in the West, who have just received our first issue of the year, and think to fill up their attenuated sheets by an attack on the style of matter in ours. Did it never occur to these children of the prairies that we do not depend absolutely on our exchange-list for support? Let them accept with thankfulness the food furnished them, remembering that even muscular literature is better than that of the whining stamp...