Word: six
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...only six miles, and the evening is starlight and pleasant and warm...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, George F. Hoar, Francis E. Parker, and Henry Lee were elected Overseers for the term of six years. Rev. James Freeman Clarke, who has been a member of the Board, but was out one year, was elected for the full term. Alexander Agassiz was chosen to fill the unexpired term of Waldo Higginson, resigned...
...game was closely contested up to the end of the seventh innings, the score then standing 10 to 10. On the eighth the Harvards got hold of their opponents' pitching, did some good batting, secured nine runs and six base hits, while the Browns in the same innings received a white-wash for the fifth time...
...hotels had been reported full for two days, and still every train brought its contribution to the increasing throng. The effects of this wholesale packing were visible at the breakfast-table. Those who had enjoyed the princely hotel accommodations of six in a small room affected a dignified negligence in dress, while those who had taken their lodging on billiard-tables and hotel sofas made no attempt to conceal their real feelings, and looked miserable enough...
...asserting that "of the six hundred undergraduates in Harvard College, the proportion who enjoy good classical music is much smaller than it should be, "the writer enunciates a truth, though it can hardly be considered startling in originality. Where are we to find any number of persons, in any condition of culture, to whom the same remark would be inapplicable? Every one ought to enjoy classical music, and until, in the course of half a dozen centuries, mankind is educated up to the desired point, the paragraph quoted will still be in order...