Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CANVASS of the departments at Washington shows that employed therein are sixty-one graduates of Yale, thirty-five of Princeton, thirty of Dartmouth, and twelve of Harvard...
THERE has been considerable complaint about the hour for dinner at Memorial; many wishing it changed from half past five to six, in order to accommodate those training for the crews, and those wishing to see the ball matches...
...final contest. When we consider the fondness of judges for making an award which shall astonish everybody, we cannot help feeling that it is impossible for one single man to pick out twenty men, and say that they, and none but they, stand a chance for the five prizes that are offered. It seems to us that the only really fair way is to have the same judges for the two trials. If this is too much for us to ask, we can at least be allowed more than one judge. It would be advisable, too, that at least some...
...many, and the records better than ever before, as the date of the meeting has been postponed till after the Class Races, so that several who take part in them will be able to compete. There is now every opportunity to practise, and in the next four or five weeks we hope to see many availing themselves of it. The Athletic Association will see that a hammer and shot are provided for those who wish to train for these events. They will be placed under the Society Building, and can be found there any afternoon...
...first part of his article, seems to think they are not; that because so many men will receive the lower grades of honors, the list will have no interest to any one. But it is not easy to see how the interest felt in honors which four or five men or which ten or twelve men only succeed in winning is to be materially diminished by the fact that fifty or sixty students win an entirely different honor, one of a much lower grade. It would be fully as reasonable to say that the one man who obtains a degree...