Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...performance in point of celerity and expertness could hardly be called satisfactory; yet the phenomenon of seeing the least heed paid by the college to the warning of words or of experience in this matter is so unusual as to deserve comment and praise. The college evidently considers a dozen or so of permanent fire escapes as too heavy an expenditure to be made for the trivial purpose of insuring the safety of occupants of the dormitories, but on urgent warning does not object to drilling its employes in the use of cumbersome fire ladders. This is a distinction entirely...
...order that the college may not complain of being unable to see the crew row, Capt. Hammond agrees to row the crew three or four times up and down in front of the boat-house every day at five, provided there are half a dozen men there to see it, and it is to be hoped that use will be made of this opportunity to see the crew as it is making its greatest improvements...
Spaulding's regulation base-balls can be ordered through the Co-operative Society at $11.65 per dozen, or a single ball...
...author's name and works have long been known to readers of the college press, and this, his first work, will not disappoint those whose expectations have been based upon his former excellent sketches. The scene is laid in the town of Penford, not a dozen miles from Boston, and the author, under the guise of a novel, describes exceedingly well the society and people of one of the many smaller towns which surround Boston and serve as homes for those whose business calls them into the city each day. The interest of the reader is kept up throughout...
...interesting lecture on this subject, illustrated by stereopticon views. Assos is situated southward from the Troad in Asia Minor upon the bay of Adramyttion, opposite the island of Lesbos. Mr. Clarke and Mr. Bacon were fixed upon by the Archaeological Institute to direct the expedition, and with half a dozen volunteers have been upon the spot since last April, with remarkable success. They have uncovered a temple, as well as portions of the city wall, of remarkable beauty, the gymnasium, baths, and numerous public works. Although exceedingly limited in funds, there is every prospect of still more remarkable results during...