Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...assignments for the class photographs have been completed; and of over four hundred and fifty men, all but about a dozen (mostly in the latter part of the alphabet) have responded to the notices. These last delinquents are reminded that they must "sit" before the recess...
YESTERDAY Rattle and some friends went trap shooting at the Riverside Recreation Grounds. The trap tender says that after they left he picked up nine dozen sound birds and that before their next visit he hopes to complete a trap that will fly a barn door...
...majority it is simply one which ruled in their Freshman year, so shifting is the college community, and so soon are traditions formed. To call the actual exercises around last year's tree an old custom seems a bit ridiculous to the grad of but half a dozen years standing, and to designate those of six years ago in the same manner, equally so to the the alumni of the seventies. Thus to give up the Tree Exercises as they were last year does not appear such an unpardonable sacrifice of old traditions...
...Over two hundred and fifty have already either "sat" or arranged as to providing a photograph. It is a little unfortunate, however, that a very few can do much towards counteracting the consideration which the rest of their class-mates are willing to give. For example, about half a dozen men in the first page of engravings, one on the second, three on the third, and four on the fourth page, through indifference, neglect, or other unknown cause, are serving as an antidote to the prompt attention which over one hundred other Seniors gave. As the "other unknown causes" might...
Each additional dozen...