Word: fold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of students in the classical department at Cornell has increased five-fold in four years...
...selves, they constantly impair their vitality and consume their strength. With all that is said for athletics among the younger men it is believed that their necessity among the older men is very imperfectly understood, and that the physical exercise of men in middle life might be increased many fold without bringing them up to the standard of a well balanced physical and mental life...
...cage itself is in good condition. Captain Willard has caused to be hung around the wire sides of the cage a thick cotton cloth. The benefits derived are two-fold. The light thereby is kept within the cage, an essential factor in afternoon practice. In addition, this seclusion admits of closer application to duties, since the presence of a large crowd of commenters is sure to distract the attention of the candidates...
...take pleasure in announcing in another column the St. Mark's alumni dinner which takes place January 3d, 1889. There is a two-fold purpose in holding these alumni dinners-one to bring the lower classmen in college into closer relations with men of the upper classes; the other to keep alive the interest of the graduates in the welfare and growth of their preparatory schools. These motives cannot be carried out unless all the alumni take an interest in them and make it a point to attend the dinners. The first dinner of the Alumni Association of St. Mark...
...Since about 1837 the population of the country has increased four-fold, and the number of colleges three-fold, while the number of students in arts has in the meantime only doubled. In the country generally the number of students under instruction at any given time is in a proportion of about 1 to 2000 or 2,500. In 1830 the average attendance on the existing colleges was sixty-seven each, and in 1880 about forty each. There is not a state in the Union in which the number of colleges is not greatly in excess of the educational needs...