Word: counting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...academic council, but it is supposed that the members will arrive at a final decision at their meeting next week to decide definitely upon this question. It is understood, however, that the year in which the degree may be awarded to members of the professional schools will not also count as a year of residence for those schools, though the work done will of course be considered in the course of study for the professional degrees. A standard of scholarship higher than that required by candidates for ordinary degrees will of course be required. In the meanwhile, in the absence...
...above all don't say "mash" unless you can count up twenty-five, and can bring good proof for each one in the shape of painted tambourines and wall-banners. - [Yale News...
...have no hunting experience to count unless you have been hugged by a grizzly...
...Coney Island races yesterday, the Stonehenge colt won the mile race in 1.43 1/2. Corona won the three-quarters mile race in 1.17 1/2. Runnymede won the 1 1/2 mile in 2.37. Fair Count won the 1 1/4 mile in 2.11 1/4, and Frank Short won the steeple chase...
...Yale Courant reports that it has been found by actual count that of the students assigned to four divisions according to scholarship, 25 per cent of the highest grade use tobacco, 48 per cent of the second, 70 per cent of the third, and 85 per cent of the fourth. The majority of the students at Cornell have, it is said, resolved to give up smoking on the ground of its bad effect upon the health and capacity for study...