Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tickets were sold at the moderate sum of five dollars each, and "quarter-tickets" were provided for the benefit of those whose interest in literature was not of an alarmingly ardent nature...
Miscellaneous.- Twenty-five of the Brown students sing in the Moody and Sankey choir...
...Cushing, William Tudor, and J. G. Palfrey stand among the thirties; and Professors Norton and Lowell, and W. H. Prescott, among the twenties. Of the members of the present Faculty, H. W. Torrey has seven; John Fiske and Asa Gray, six each; A. S. Hill and C. F. Dunbar five each; H. C. Lodge and F. H. Hedge two each; and J. B. Greenough, J. P. Cooke, Jr., and N. S. Shaler, one each. Among the other contributors are Bancroft, Bryant, Lewis Cass, Daniel Webster, Emerson, Nathan Hale, Longfellow, and Howells...
...which will be found in the Brevity column) by all classes, except the Sophomores, is below the share which it is customary to allot to the class in proportion to their burdens. Of the whole amount required the Seniors are assessed twelve per cent., the Juniors and Sophomores twenty-five per cent., and the Freshmen thirty-eight per cent. According to the estimate of the treasurer it will be necessary to have about thirty-two hundred dollars subscribed. The Sophomores have already subscribed their portion, the Seniors are about forty-two dollars behind, the Juniors one hundred and seventy...
Harvard thought the exception was therefore a bad one to make; and, moreover, that it might give Columbia a decided advantage over Harvard, - an advantage which our record for the past five or six years has not placed us in a position to yield. Accordingly, a reply was made to Columbia that she could have no advantage which Harvard did not have under her agreements with Yale. Columbia replied that she would "row only a university race," and she desired an answer to her original challenge. An answer was immediately sent, - a refusal...