Word: three
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTORS expect the young ladies, as they do not have the full number of hours, to study three hours on each lesson...
ONLY four members of the adjoining sisterhood take the whole course, and three of these are daughters of Unitarian ministers...
...informed that the Faculty contemplate substituting for the roll call of students in each section, a method of registration by which each student is expected to report three times each week to the Proctor of his building, or some other authority in case he does not room in a Proctor's building; this provision is made to prevent non-residence of students. We should be glad to see real voluntaries given to the College, which of course means the abolition of a meaningless roll-call, but cannot judge of the system of registration until further details are made public...
...hear his heart go thumpety-thump against his ribs. It's a sad day for this slender twig of the Van Rasselas stock. At last, after miles of streets and fields (so it seemed to Ferdy), they come to a wire fence with jagged points along the top, about three feet high. Ferdy tries to jump it, but his strength gives out and he sits on the top wire; the points tear his knickerbockers and pierce his epidermis, and Ferdy concludes it hurts much more than when he sat on a bent...
When I found that of us, three dupes had been made...