Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...quoted something to the effect that troubles were billows on life's ocean; when I proposed that we buffet them in company, and made as big a fool of myself as such circumstances require, promising eternal devotion, and expressing an ardent desire to die for her sake a number of times...
...consider a good business man, as for the pleasure of seeing a friend hold the place. If the subscribers in the Football and Base Ball Clubs had a voice in the election of a manager, as is practically the case in University Boat Club and Athletic Association elections, the number of subscribers would undoubtedly be raised; provided, at the same time, that only subscribers be allowed to vote for any officers of the association...
...debates which the Union has already had show that there is much interest taken in the organization, and that there are a number of men in College who take lively interest in political matters. In the debates there is one danger that needs to be avoided, if possible : that is, the tendency to stray from the question under discussion to mere refutations of perhaps very insignificant points. It might be advisable, in order to keep the subject constantly in mind, to have it written plainly on the blackboard behind the chairman's desk. The subject for the next debate...
...inclement weather. The 'Varsity Nine will play a match with the Beacons, beginning at 3 o'clock, P. M., and at 3.30 o'clock P.M. there are to be running and walking races, in which Messrs. Herrick and Wendell, of the H. A. A., will probably compete. A number of Harvard men also are entered in the Tennis Tournament, and the afternoon's sport will probably prove very entertaining. Mr. Wright deserves the heartiest support of the College men for the careful manner in which he fulfilled his duties as coach of our last year's cricket team...
...very well for our professors to have an agent to whom they can give orders for the books they recommend to their sections; but is it necessary that all should order of one man, thus establishing a monopoly in the book trade? The students suffer by it, and the number is large of those who go to the city to buy when they hear that they can get what they want there. I think there is plenty of room in Cambridge for another bookstore. If no dealer comes forward to supply the demand for books at better prices, the professors...