Word: three
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...EGGSELLENT FABLE FOR EDITORS.A Sporting Hen once made a Bet with another female Rooster that on Every Consecutive Day in three consecutive months (Sundays excepted, - for though of a Sportive Habit she did not go fast on Sundays, which Every one knows is a Feast-Day) - She would lay a successive and successful Egg, making eggsactly ninety-one in All. A critical Weasel, who liked Dropped Eggs on Toast, determined to investeggate the Performance. Now he was a Pareggrapher on a Boston evening Paper; so deserting his Post he paid a Visit to the Hendignant Chicken...
...none too early for the various classes to begin to get together material for the crews that are to row in the spring, as it will require fully three months to train class eights up to the standard of last year. The chances of success are so evenly balanced, that if proper captains are chosen, and due care is taken in selecting men to row, the race must be very close. There ought to be plenty of men willing to train, with all the advantages that are now at hand, and the interest that is centred in these class contests...
After much deliberation, three adjectives have been chosen for use with the names of instructors. These three are "genial" (or "kindly"), "thorough," and "popular." The Editors believe that at least one of these will be applicable whenever a professor is spoken...
...gather from the reports of the class secretaries, this subscription was started by the Class of '71, and has been continued by each class since that time. The average subscription has varied considerably in different years. In '75 it was ninety-four dollars; for the last three years it has been about fifty dollars. The amount subscribed is paid in ten annual instalments, and is finally handed over to the Corporation, to use as they think best...
...promise also that I will, within three weeks after every successful sitting, put a finished picture of the person so sitting, together with such certificate as is above provided for, on exhibition in my said studio in Cambridge...