Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet been given by a Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which was constructed...
...Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen observation trains. Easily as one may abuse the superlative degree, I am surely within the limits of moderation in saying that the unanimity and unreservedness of the praise bestowed by the newspaper press, for three successive seasons, on the New London managers, is something entirely singular and unique in American aquatic annals...
...price of board at Memorial, $4.62 a week for the last month, is owing to two causes: (1) the quality of the board, which has been much better than in previous years; (2) the rise in the price of provisions. For example, eggs cost last year 13 cents a dozen, this year 22 cents, while all meats have risen one cent a pound over the price of last year. Coal, which forms a large item in the expenses, costs this year $5.83, last year only $3.40. In addition to all this, the fact that the Hall was opened...
CONSIDERABLE dissatisfaction has been expressed among the students, especially among members of the Senior class, in regard to the action of the Faculty in preventing men from taking an elective a second time. I refer to English 2, the course in Shakspeare. Fully a dozen men who took the course last year, and became interested in the subject, desired to extend their knowledge of Shakspeare by taking the course a second time. Before making out their elective lists, they consulted the instructor, who assured them that no objection would be opposed to their taking the course again, since different plays...
...capital idea of Dick's to secretly connect the telephone with the parlors of Mrs. B.'s house. On the night of the grand reception, half a dozen of us gathered in his room, anxious to hear what we might of the doings at the reception. Dick had so arranged that we could all hear at the same time; which was a great convenience, since ordinarily, owing to the want of magnitude of the ear-piece, but one person at a time can have his ear at it, while the rest, his companions, must wait in tantalizing suspense, watching...