Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...race for the Junior single sculls promises to be very good, from the large number of entries...
...description of them; but the description is apt to be meagre, and our ideas confused from not wishing to bother the professors for a second and third account. Aside from this, it is a great nuisance to go to a professor's house or room a number of times, only to find that he is not at home, to say nothing of the trouble to the professor when you do find him at home...
There are, of course, other facts concerning the course that it would be useful to give, as to the number of hours that the average student would have to give to outside work, and what the general nature of that work would be. The statistics of the number of men taking the course, and of the number dropped, &c., as above, would be very useful. The average per cent attained by those who were not conditioned would be interesting. One or two of the professors have thought of publishing some statistics and explanations of their own courses; but no official...
...quite sure that he did n't. Don't you remember that fellow who was always having his brothers poisoned? Well, he came just before the man with the game leg, who went to Pope what's-his-number, to get a divorce from his wife, who was the daughter or cousin or something of the mother of Charles the Fat. Oh, I had it perfectly cold. I say," - to No. 5 l., "how did you get along with your calculus...
...know, but I can't stand his love. He does n't make any secret of it, so perhaps you'd like to hear how he goes on. His favorite way is to go to the drawer where he keeps his treasures, and bring out some decayed peony or number eight glove, and then to fall into a rhapsody over it. "This glove, Tom, was Minnie's. I met her that summer I spent at the seaside. She was my beau-ideal...