Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...weekly consumption of the staple articles of food at Randall Hall is as follows: 3100 pounds of beef, 840 pounds of ham and pork, 90 bushels of potatoes, 850 pounds of poultry, 530 pounds of butter, 960 pounds of lamb and veal, 75 pounds of coffee, 390 dozen eggs, 6 barrels of apples, 18 barrels of vegetables, 840 pounds of fish, 950 gallons of milk, 20 barrels of flour...
...course in geodetic surveying lasted only three weeks this year and consisted mainly in making triangulation surveys of half a dozen hills and in making maps from the results of the surveying. The work is mostly in reading angles and computing, but accuracy is particularly emphasized...
...Advocate has recently received a dozen handsome pewter cups with the Advocate seal wrought on the faces, the gift of T. T. Baldwin '86, a graduate editor. With these and the photographs of former boards of editors the sanctum has lately been greatly improved...
...popularity of the subject brought out an unusually large audience, every seat being taken and many being obliged to stand. Among the crowd were about a dozen Harvard men as well as Hill and Scott of Princeton, who came to study the tactics of the Yale speakers. The rebuttal work of both teams was far above the average. President Hadley, who presided, said it stood unrivalled. In the main speeches the Harvard men took occasion to rebut more than did the Yale representatives. But the Yale men in the regular rebuttal speeches had a slight advantage. This was the first...
...steward at Memorial, in order to get his salary, is obliged to guarantee the cost of board, which, notwithstanding the increased cost of meats, etc., is virtually what it was last year, while prices at Randall are much higher. Take eggs for example. They cost 14 cents a dozen or less; after being cooked, they are sold for 48 cents a dozen. It is high time that a bulletin of cost prices be conspicuously posted. Two years ago, the Foxcroft Club voted for such publicity. The steward, after tacking such a notice on a door far in the rear...