Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number for match games shall not exceed 15 nor be less than...
...reply to the article on the University of Vermont, which appeared in our last number, we have received a communication, which we should have been pleased to publish, if it had been written in a more legible hand and signed. We can of course print nothing with the author of which we are unacquainted...
...been rather the fashion for the last few years, beginning prominently with an oration by Mr. Adams, if we remember rightly, to blame Harvard for not giving enough instruction in writing. People who saw in the Catalogue what seemed a very small number of themes and forensics prescribed, would hastily conclude that Harvard offered no other opportunities for training in writing. To show that this conclusion is unfair may justify us as undergraduates in defending our Alma Mater against an accusation in which some of our College rulers have joined; and as visiting committees of the Overseers have just been...
...first place, almost every society requires some literary work of its members, either before or after initiation, so that in this way a large number of men gain that first practice in writing which is necessary to wear away the newness of their pens and make them run freely. Then the themes and forensics are sufficiently numerous, in the last three years, to allow the student on the average only four weeks to compose each one, which is certainly by no means too long for those who have acquired no great facility in arranging their ideas. These are all carefully...
...provided boats enough to allow one third of the members to row at the same time. As there is an impression that he is in some way making an inordinate profit on these boats, we have collected a few figures to show the present condition of his investment. The number of paying members is as follows: in Holworthy, 10; in Matthews, 17; in Weld, 31; in Holyoke, 20. This must be compared with the number last year: Holworthy, 39; Matthews, 61; Weld, 70; Holyoke, probably as many as in Matthews or Weld, but the records cannot be found. The totals...