Word: ten
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Rhine was said to flow into the Atlantic, the Danube into the Baltic. An example comes to our mind of a candidate for admission to Harvard College giving the width of the Amazon River at its mouth as about two miles, and the length of the Mississippi as ten thousand miles; another confidently affirmed Maine to be a coffee-growing State. We recently saw a paper directed to the Reading-room "Herveford College...
...University Lectures, so thoroughly tried last year, was successful enough to warrant its continuance this year, in a modified form. In addition to Professor Agassiz's course, two others are now being given, one by Mr. Samuel Eliot, on the History of the Nineteenth Century (continued), on Saturdays, at ten o'clock, in Boylston Hall; the other by Mr. C. C. Perkins, on the History of Art, on Fridays, at three o'clock, in Boylston Hall...
...about two months ago there appeared an "Advertiser's Companion" to the Tabular View that was issued last October. It is not possible that men would have invested their money in such a manner unless the facts had been misrepresented. We suspect that not one in ten of the students ever gave a thought to these "Companions," and the men who got them out must have known this would be the case. They therefore lied, either directly or by implication; in their desire for money they forgot their honor and became swindlers...
MUCH attention has been called, during the past eight or ten months, on the part of the newspapers, to the changes in agitation at Harvard. Some have censured, some approved, the liberality of the University Officers in taking such bold steps toward their universally accorded aim, a University system similar to Oxford or Cambridge...
With these facts before him our writer sends out his thoughts in search of something funny : but witticisms are coy birds and fly high; few are able to capture them at will, or furnish them to order. In nine cases out of ten, wearied with his fruitless endeavors, he descends to a lower plane, makes use of vulgarity, and passes it off for wit. Some, as we have before hinted, seem unable to distinguish between the genuine and the spurious article; others there are who, from their moral status, seem incapable of appreciating anything genuine, who derive their intellectual nourishment...