Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Prof. W. D. Wilson, of Cornell, was lately elected honorary member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain. He is one of the five Americans who have been elected to that society...
...Yale Opera House is to be a large, fine building, and will cost $75,000. It will have a seating capacity of 2,500; will contain a stage seventy-five feet long by forty deep, a dancing-hall seventy-five by sixty-five feet, and a large dining-hall for the convenience of Junior and Senior promenades...
...Amherst will this year graduate seventy-five men. Of this number 42 are Republicans, 7 Democrats, and 22 Independents; 49 believe in total abstinence; 34 dance, 34 smoke, 10 chew, and 56 play cards; 13 are devoted to Political Economy, 11 to Philosophy, and I to the study of human nature; 7 are engaged, 4 "won't tell," while the remainder are still untrammelled...
...pretty throw by Dow from right field, gave the Lowells three runs and the lead. But our chances were still good until the Lowells, when about to take the field, were ordered to stop playing by their manager, who claimed there was an agreement to stop the game at five o'clock. An animated discussion revealed the fact that, for the accommodation of the Lowells, such an agreement had been made by the captains. But it also transpired that the last two runs of the Lowells were made after five, and therefore, according to the strict letter of the agreement...
...visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair will be seated on the soft boards which surround Holmes Field, and they will witness, in place of the exercises around the tree a base-ball match between the University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during these hours is unfortunately an uncertain quantity. If we win the match, the spectators of the contest will adjourn to the various spreads with light hearts and excellent...