Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These passed on before the "Washington Corps" - about a dozen men in blue swallow-tail coats and white small-clothes, and hose. They were supposed to represent a student organization of that name existing here in the early part of this century...
This was an organization of the first of this century, and consisted of the thirty laziest men in the class, of which the most supremely lazy was high admiral. About a dozen men dressed as sailors kept the memory of the club alive, and Mr. J. B. Blake '87, dressed in Admiral's uniform, lay on a red divan on a dray, - the laziest of the sluggards...
...profitable amusement for an entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying the inner man with sandwiches, cheese, bits of sausage, and bottled beer. Anxious fathers and mothers were wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they hung on tiptoe, threatened slow strangulation...
...course, ought to be attended to at once. The large amount of petty annoyance that would be saved the instructor and the hundred and thirty men in the course is readily seen. As it is now, a half hours chase about Harvard Square is required to obtain a half dozen commonplace blanks, and there is every possibility that they may not be found even at that...
...which our men did the poorest playing of the game. Ames, the left half-back of the Tufts team runs low, and it is astonishing how the high tackling of our men showed itself when they attempted to stop him. During this ten minutes Ames went under half a dozen Harvard men; that is, if he had stood up straight, those half dozen would have caught him just below his shoulders, and not one would have got under his thrust...