Word: three
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Faculty is competent to deliver such a lecture. They would say that any one of them, though he may endeavor to be unprejudiced, still would show more enthusiasm on the subjects toward which his tastes have led him. We will admit this, and can offer as an alternative, that three or even four lectures be given by men representing different branches. Thus students, when they reach their Senior year, can blame but themselves if their knowledge consists only in facts gleaned from electives whose apparent "softness" and convenient hours have been their sole attraction...
...Saturday last the Lacrosse Team won the champion flags from three other colleges, Princeton, Columbia, and New York University, by a score of four to nothing against the last and three to nothing against the first named team, our men showing themselves throughout (to quote a New York paper) "A well-trained, active, and heavy team." We think that by its energy and perseverance in the face of indifference and discouragement, the Lacrosse Team has proved incontestably its right to the support and approval of the College. In these champion flags it has the very best possible plea for existence...
...selves." With how great, pleasure was it, then, that we discovered the influence of our old friend in the management of our beloved University. It appears that the fountain of Boston's wealth having temporarily run dry, the honored commander-in-chief has determined to raise that Three Millions by following out the above maxims, and, therefore, the entire working force outside of the Library has received rigid and valuable instruction in the works of the great philosopher. To this end is the hay carefully gathered and removed; to this end are the tons of blue-books sent...
...distance stretches on three sides the limitless forest, while on the east, just below, the ocean, murmuring legends of distant lands, coaxes the shore to sleep. The space thus enclosed between forest and sea seems a very paradise. Gentle slopes separate the green hills from the fertile valleys; blue streams ripple joyfully to the sea; the whole place is sparsely covered with noble trees, individualized into a more gigantic beauty than that of their kinsmen in the forest. In the fairest of the valleys, next the sea, protected on the north and west by gently sloping yet lofty hills, lies...
...from a man in an inconspicuous corner, whom I had heard referred to as the Exchange Exhibitor.) "There," said the chairman, "I flatter myself those are pretty good." Then, taking out his ruler, he continued after a pause, "I regret to say that we are still nine feet and three inches short. I will write the nine feet if some one will take the rest." After some discussion it was voted to be stow the rest upon the Exchange Exhibitor, who, after a long search, was found at the bottom of one of the empty cigarette baskets. After reversing...