Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assumed any very sentimental aspect; she never would quite allow that. Yet I believe that she preferred me to the other aspirants for her favor who made nuisances of themselves (in my estimation at least) at our hotel. On this afternoon, at any rate, she had left behind a dozen unhappy and vindictive admirers, in order to explore, in my company, what little portion of Lake Winnepesaukee we could hope to cover easily in the hot August sunshine. Thus it came about that we were under the trees by the lakeside, very happy...
...sooner he appreciates this the better for his college. What a marked contrast was the attendance of the meeting of Tuesday evening with that called for such an important matter as the consideration of a challenge to Columbia! At the last-named meeting, there were barely a dozen men present besides the Crew...
Where ten dollars are roses a dozen...
...different from the system pursued in the matter of College rooms. And in fact, does it not seem that when a student who has occupied a room for one year and done nothing towards improving it, is considered to have a prior claim to that room against perhaps a dozen new-comers, who are willing and eager to pay the rent for it, - does it not seem that a man who has really spent labor and money upon improving a piece of ground, has a better claim to it than one who merely is the first...
...societies on the same evening, the meeting was one of the most successful the Union has had. The question was: "Resolved, That co-education is desirable at Harvard." The regular disputants were, on the affirmative, Messrs. Firman and Mclnnes; and on the negative, Messrs. Thayer and Fuller. About a dozen members spoke from the House. Though the ballot on the merits of the question was two to one against co-education, the vote on the merits of the argument was three to one for it, although the negative was very ably argued...