Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with regret that we observe the falling off in the attendance at the evening readings given by our professors in the various departments of literature. Only a short time since, the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth cantos of the Inferno were read to an audience of five students and four outsiders; while a few weeks before a multitudinous concourse of three - including a library clerk - assembled to hear a reading from Faust. It may be that we are now having a surfeit of lectures and readings; but it certainly seems that those who fail to attend our evening...
Next came the first bout in the fencing-match, between Messrs. Cory, L. S. S., and Ryerson, L. S., in which Mr. Ryerson obtained five touches to his opponent's three, thus winning the bout. The vaulting with two hands followed; the contestants being Messrs. Livermore and Tyng, '76, Wetherbee, '78, and Keene, '79, all of whom vaulted to the height of six feet four inches, when Mr. Keene withdrew, followed by Mr. Wetherbee at six feet six inches. The prize was won by Mr. Livermore, vaulting six feet nine inches...
...third fencing-bout between Messrs. Ryerson and Cushing, Mr. Ryerson got in five touches, and won the bout...
...books of Horace; in Greek, one play of Euripides. French and German may be offered instead of Greek. In the languages the examinations aim to find out whether the candidate has "a sound and accurate knowledge of these languages." There are twenty fellowships, of the value of five hundred dollars each, whose object "is to give to scholars of promise the opportunity to prosecute further studies, under favorable circumstances, and likewise to open a career for those who propose to follow the pursuit of literature or science." There are now in attendance twelve matriculated, and twenty-three unmatriculated students, besides...
...dear rooms and cheap rooms, and each one can take his choice. The writer of the article in the Advocate makes an error of judgment when he compares Harvard's dormitories and prices unfavorably with those of other colleges. He says that the best rooms in Tufts are seventy-five dollars; but who would not give more for a bad room in our buildings than for the best one at Tufts? He says the average price of rooms at Yale is seventy dollars. This is true enough, but we may venture to say that Yale rooms are dear at that...