Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman classes at the various colleges number as follows...
STUDENTS entering the College or returning from vacation are requested to leave their address - name of building or street, and number of room - at the Post Office, so that their letters can be delivered without delay...
...much-extolled club system; the boats were filled with hastily collected, imperfectly trained oarsmen, that varied as much in ability and knowledge of rowing as a crew possibly could. The boating-men who were not in training for the "Varsity" or the Freshman crew were few in number, and they were not enough interested in their respective clubs to work for them. As the men who were in training were debarred from the club crews, the consequence was only natural...
...their Puritan ancestors. They are naturally rather afraid to maltreat him openly; but he is sure to be excluded from decent society. And before you have been in college long, you will learn that decent society - or decent societies, for the word is generally used in the plural number - is the sole end of the ordinary student's life...
...F.THE Princetonian has reached the third number of its first volume, and as college papers go it may be called good. The editorial department might be decidedly improved. The editorials abound in what is called on daily papers "swashy writing." Many words are used to say what might much better be said in a few; and the words themselves are not all free from objection. Unless we are much mistaken, they will not find in either Webster or Worcester such a verb as "to inevitate" nor is the word sanctioned by any usage good or bad. But the Princetonian tells...