Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small number care to avail themselves of the chance thus offered them. It would seem that the honor of delivering a commencement part would lead nearly all the rank list men to make a trial, but such is not the case. As yet, we believe, scarcely more than a dozen men have handed in their subjects for parts. It is obvious that the more parts the instructors have to choose from, the better will be the commencement exercises of '85. This one fact alone ought to induce more seniors to write in the hopes that they will thereby improve...
...freshmen commenced with over twenty candidates, who have been reduced to ten or a dozen of the most promising men. They row in fairly good form, considering their inexperience...
Wednesday, a few freshman ball players, and over a dozen lacrosse men practised upon Jarvis. Yesterday, the lacrosse men, and freshmen were out again, and a few of the university nine batted and fielded upon Jarvis...
After the Restoration, Italian opera was introduced into England; the most popular writer was Purcell, whose style was exemplified by the song "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly," which has also been recently given in the Sanders Theatre series. In all, about a dozen illustrations were sung, which were heartily applauded. The next lecture will take up the early instrumental music to the time of Bach., and will come after the recess...
...intend to be wasteful, but in view of the tremendous burden which sports have come to be upon the purses of the students, we should not object to see a return in some respects to the more Spartanlike simplicity of former years. The crews of ten or a dozen years ago which battled for Harvard did not find it necessary to have shore uniforms bought for them, even though they were quartered near more than three other crews and close to larger cities than New London. There was no talk of their esprit de corps being less because they could...