Word: number
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dear fellow," thought I, "if you continue to be as great an ass as you are now, your pictures will probably remain undecorated, unless you should go to France, and compete for the medal of which La Marjolaine got such a number; and even then, you might not succeed. Again, why have any pictures that don't 'amount to much'? Your wall-paper, which is not intolerably ugly, is better than a bad print." This is what I thought. I only said, "Though the Art Club does not generally admit Freshmen to its hilarious meetings, your room is evidence that...
...number of tickets to the referee's boat tomorrow is limited to forty...
TWENTY-TWO men have elected English 6 this year. The number last year was nineteen...
...Board of Directors of Memorial Hall have petitioned the Corporation for leave to put in a few more tables. There are still some fifteen or twenty persons boarding at the hall over and above the number of seats...
...dear, when he can be much more comfortably lodged elsewhere for half the price. This is true, not of this building alone, but of nearly all those owned by the University, which through the years of hard times has not abated its price in the least. Consequently the number of students who room outside the Yard is annually increasing, and it will not be surprising if the number of vacant college rooms increases proportionately, unless a fairer policy is instituted. The College, with its many endowments and its untaxed property, should be contented to realize a moderate income from...