Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every afternoon this fall. The football team can well spare a few of the many Idlers who watch its daily practice, and the facilities of the two boathouses can be used to much better advantage than they have ever been in the past. The complaint that Harvard has a dozen spectators for every athlete has been a frequent one in our athletics; the dormitory rowing season offers a good opportunity for lessening the disparity...
...sport which requires a professional fencing master, and the lessons and equipment cost each member of the team about $50 per season, which he pays out of his own pocket, for the Athletic Association pays nothing towards coach or equipment. Thus out of 30 odd original candidates but a dozen remained--simply because they could not or did not care to assume this expense, an expense the members of no other team are obliged to bear. It is, then, no longer a survival of the fittest, but of the longest pocket...
...additions to the museum during the past year have been two bronze battle-axes from Damascus, four stone seals, two of which appear to be Babylonian, one Assyrian, and one Persian, two Arabic manuscripts, and about two dozen specimens of rock salt from the shores of the Dead Sea. Of the Greek papyri received from the Egypt Exploration Fund and reported a year ago, three have been deposited as a loan in the museum of the Classical Department of the University...
...enthusiastic as a whole in class affairs as it should have been, it might be well for Seniors to wake up to this fact in these last months and leave behind them a memory of an active and able class as well as the memories of a paltry dozen men. There is a great need for men in the class to take more interest in each other, simply as members of the same class...
...been interested in athletics and in the success of the Harvard teams; but he has always believed that honor is first, success second. Last year's crew under the able lead of Captain Richardson remedied a grave defect in our rowing system, one that was no- ticeable for a dozen years; and more important than this, they really enjoyed their practice on the river and showed thereby that victory could be gained without straining to the very point of exhaustion. There could be no more striking comparison than that between the athletic sports in the University...