Word: third
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would suggest that the quantity of fish, if it is absolutely necessary for us to have fish every Friday, be reduced one third or one half, and that some kind of hot meat be substituted, for the benefit of those students who dislike fish. A similar change might be made on other days. Heretofore we have been accustomed to partake of mutton once a week, and have had veal quite a number of times. Now some persons dislike mutton exceedingly, and a great many consider a mouthful of veal hardly preferable to a dose of castor-oil. When the dinner...
Each club, at present, possesses a six-oar barge, a four-oar, two double sculls, and two single sculls, with an average membership of fifty, - or each club can seat at any one time one third of its members. This number of boats is sufficient when there are no crews in training, and as long as the barges can be used by all members; but when the crews commence going out in the afternoon, then the number of boats is too small. Unless one happens to have rowed before, and has some skill in handling the oar, - unless...
...glad to learn that the Yale-Harvard base-ball games are to be played as formerly, - one here, one in New Haven, and the third on neutral ground. Several men are working hard for the Nine, and there is reason to hope that the championship, so long held by Harvard, will be regained...
...Over one third of the members of '77 attended their class prayer-meeting Sunday...
...says that every one who is not a gentleman is a scrub; his notions of gentlemen being apparently governed by the cut of their coats. Another person is inclined to number in this category all those whose moral or political opinions decidedly differ from his own. A third, with magnificent impartiality, declares anybody whom he does not happen to fancy to be decidedly scrubby; and so they go on ad infinitum...