Word: tens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this with no disparagement either to the latter or Mr. Billings. It matters little, however, whether we are able to discover the wit, so long as we are assured it is there. Why attempt to crack the nut, knowing, as we do, that the kernel is safely incased within; ten to one we shall find a shrivelled morsel for our pains. I learn from men of wisdom, - men who, by a theory of events, have ascertained to an hour the time of Homer's birth and death, - that the study of Aristophanes and other primitive pagans is calculated to elevate...
...Dana (stroke), Goodwin, Morse, Low, Bacon, Devens (bow). The Junior crew is at present Silsbee (stroke), Wheeler, Good-rich, Harding, Burry, P. Dana (bow); and the Sophomore crew Hunnewell (stroke), Prince, Wet-more, Clark, Appleton, Hartwell (bow). The Freshman crew is still more uncertain; but as there are some ten good candidates for its seats, there is no danger that Captain Hodges will not present a good crew at the race...
...many who have already won laurels at the oar. The meeting was called to order at 11.30. Mr. E. H. Luther, being the only member of last year's executive committee present, was elected chairman pro tem., and Mr. F. W. Whitridge, Secretary pro tem. In organizing the convention, ten colleges were found to be represented there by their delegates. They were as follows: Harvard, - Wendell Goodwin, W. C. Sanger; Yale, - R. J. Cook, H. A. Oakes; Williams, - J. Gunster, T. W. Saunders; Bowdoin, - A. J. Boardman; Trinity, - G. B. Underhill, J. D. McKennon; Cornell, - E. S. Moses...
...Forty-Second Congress contained ten graduates of Yale and three of Harvard." - Record. Such a candid confession goes far toward disarming criticism. Indeed, we half believe that the natural tendencies of this unfortunate ten incited them to their disreputable courses, almost as much as the effect of four years at New Haven. We hope that the paragraph will not have so bad an influence upon the size of '77 at Yale, as we apprehend...
...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...