Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bicycle Club last night to the Woodland Park House, Auburndale, was very succeseful. A dozen members of the club took the run, and after an enjoyable supper, returned to Cambridge at ten o'clock...
...strength, so must the safety of a hundred students be computed on the basis of the habits of the most heedless in their number. A carelessly built fire; a thoughtless oversight of an open gas jet; either cause may send the CRIMSON into black leads for a dozen ives needlessly thrown away. Nor can all the blame be laid upon a single man if the fire that must yet come pens up a half-dozen men in a blazing building. Fire escapes have been asked for, and the authorities have refused them. Any loss of life from lack of them...
...soon we learn to discriminate between the honest maiden from the rural districts and that Cambridge girl who has not missed the "ring around the tree" for a dozen years. The Cambridge maiden has acquired a taste for college students as a Parisian for absinthe, and can be happy with anything from a sub-freshman to a Divinity student...
...others is the man who, while not neglectful of his studies, adds to this an appreciation of the practical experience which the college life is so ready to bestow, and in the literary or scientific undergraduate societies, on the staff of a college paper, and in a dozen other possible ways, takes advantage of the rich opportunities to strengthen himself in body and mind. The ambition to lead one's class is not, of itself, a high ambition...
...with all the details, the arguments for and against, the side views, and dependent hypotheses before him, finds that he must write a book if he would answer only a single question adequately, and that to require him to jot down even the outlines of answers to half a dozen questions within the limit of three or four hours, shows either ignorance or imbecility. To pass an examination with success, we must not know, but only seem to know, and the man who plays the sophist best will gain the best place. It seems to be forgotten that the knowledge...