Word: three
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...equivalent for their money to the business men of Boston and Cambridge. Those who prepared the Advertiser's Tabular View at the beginning of each half-year were able, no doubt, to influence the advertisers without deception. They said that the students had to consult these tables two or three times a day for at least a week after the beginning of each term, and therefore they were tacked up in every room and remained there the year through; and suggested that by the use of small type, enamel, red and bronze inks, a Tabular View could be printed...
...thought that such a course would tend to increase the interest in the matches, and the expenses would not be greater than those attending the first plan, while the receipts would be much larger. In this case the Nine would have to remain in Cambridge for two or three weeks after the close of College, when a fine opportunity for practice would be obtained...
...week, while here the fare is poor and insufficient at $4 per week. It may be said that prices are much lower one hundred and fifty miles back in the country than near a large city. This is true; but it must also be considered that a club of three hundred men ought to obtain board at a much cheaper proportional rate than a club of seventy men, and that a professional steward would be able to arrange the wholesale importation of provisions from the country on a much larger scale than an undergraduate whose time for the business...
...regard to the increase of the number of members, it needs no argument to show that the deserted depot which provided ample accommodation for one hundred students in 1865 affords but scanty space for three hundred students in 1873; that ranges intended for the cooking of eight joints of meat cannot be made to serve for the cooking of twenty-four joints; that although one waiter may wait properly upon ten men, she may not possess the power to answer the demands of twenty-four hungry undergraduates...
...neglect by those having the highest authority in the matter, we will simply state the fact that we have now been members of the Club nearly three years, and that during this time not a single member of the Faculty has entered the place where the constitutions, the manners, and, in some degree, the characters of one half the young men intrusted to their care were being formed...