Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard students in that most trying of all places for one's manners-a Cambridge street car. My wanderings for the past two or three years have given me a good deal of experience in these vehicles, and I want to say that in scarcely more than half a dozen instances, all told, have I seen Harvard men fail of courtesy to other passengers. Many men are coming to be indifferent to the claims of women to any other treatment than they themselves receive in the cars, but it is a very rare experience for me to see a lady...
...team of ten or dozen men will be sent by the H. A. A. to compete at the Y. A. A. and Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard games at New Haven on March...
...great many men working in the gymnasium. At present there are about fifty-five men in training for the different class crews, besides the candidates for the 'Varsity. Mr. Lathrop has a class in wrestling every afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock, which is attended by about a dozen men. The class in club swinging is much larger and meets at about 4 o'clock...
...club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly formed might not remain pure, etc. In brief, the project met no favor. Now, to me this little...
...stand on an even footing with Yale, but without this practice, which the Yale team has, we are handicapped from the start. The freshman class has done almost nothing so far in regard to its base-ball team. Captain Bates has had very hard work to get even a dozen men to train. This ought not to continue. A large number of freshmen should be trying for their team...