Word: tens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other side of the building we heard noise enough in an upper room to lead my comrade to suppose they were engaged in disputation. We entered and went up stairs, where a person met us and requested us to walk in, which we did. We found there eight or ten young fellows sitting around, smoking tobacco, with the smoke of which the room was so full that you could hardly see; and the whole house smelt so strong of it, that when I was going up stairs I said, 'This is certainly a tavern.' We excused ourselves that we could...
...That this club hereby agrees to pay to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the use of the H. U. B. C. boat-house, ten per cent per annum in advance on the whole amount to be expended by the Corporation in cancelling all claims against the boat-house, and in remodelling and repairing it for the use of the Club; and to pay, when due, all charges for the use of water as assessed by the Water Board; and to make such repairs as may be made necessary by the neglect or carelessness of the members...
...been housed in wooden sheds of the cheapest construction, and the crews had always paid their own expenses. But those good old days are gone. Rowing has become a science, and training-tables uniforms, hats, and sundry other items have swelled the cost of a crew into the thousands. Ten years ago the undergraduates gave the "Varsity" its boat. What does it not give them...
...constitution is to be found; for the "Scheme for carrying on the Dining Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left with merely a general understanding that the Hall is to be managed to the best of their ability by ten or twelve officers, who are subject in some undefined respects to the control of the Corporation...
Throughout this work we find such minute directions that it would be insulting to their age to suppose that the girls at this institution were more than nine or ten years old; and we recommend the book as a curiosity, and as containing some useful hints to all who are interested in the primary-school system and Kindergartens of our country...