Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Club of New York held their annual dinner at Delmonico's on Thursday evening. About two hundred and fifty graduates were present, besides two dozen annex girls, who occupied the gallery. Francis O. French presided at the dinner. The speakers were Rev. H. J. Van Dyke, of Princeton, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of Yale, Messrs. J. O. Sargent, C. C. Beaman, F. T. Greenhalge, D, C. French, J. C. Centre, Professors N. S. Shaler, and Joseph Lovering, and Rev. A. Brooks. Mr. VanDyke condemned college athletics as gladiatorial, and as consisting of a large proportion of contest, with...
...instructors in the English department and a dozen undergraduates met at the house of Professor Briggs, yesterday afternoon, to discuss the project of forming an English Club. It was proposed to organize a society similar to the Historical Society and the Classical Club. There was an informal talk on the subject, but nothing definite was decided upon. It was thought best to leave the matter to the undergraduates present who will perfect plans and report in the near future...
...annual report submitted by Dean Langdell of the Law School, and published in President Eliot's recent report, contains many interesting facts, especially concerning the attendance at the school. About a dozen tables have been compiled, the first of which shows the attendance for the past eighteen years. The whole number of students has increased from...
...unless every man makes it a duty to be present and tries his best to help on class feeling. The committee would like to have some idea of the number of men intending to be present, in order that they may make suitable arrangements. But as yet barely a dozen men have signed the book. It is earnestly desired that there should be at least one hundred and thirty men at the dinner, and we urge all juniors who can possibly do so to sign at once...
Three-hour blue-books of an extra quality at 35 cents a dozen...