Word: twelfth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...frequently. It is proposed to erect or rent a building in which to fit up a reading or club room, and to furnish the remainder with bachelor apartments, which can be occupied by the members of the college and their friends. It is understood that the building corner of Twelfth Street and Broadway may be taken...
...first. Carl hit to Thayer, who fumbled, giving Blogg his third. Carl then took second, and the game began to look dark for Harvard. Cogswell hit a liner to Leeds, who muffed it and then fielded the ball widely to Wright, who caught it very prettily. In the twelfth two men were out; Tyng made a two-base hit over left field; Tower then retired by Dailey to Cogswell. Outs in order of striking followed until the seventeenth inning, when Dow made a base-hit only to retire on second by Carl to Cogswell. In the nineteenth inning Snigg pitched...
...also contains one hundred and sixty-eight volumes of manuscripts used by Jared Sparks, the manuscripts and books used by W. H. Prescott in preparing his Ferdinand and Isabella, and nearly six thousand publications collected by Dr. J. G. Palfrey. Among the manuscripts are some dating back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and one written in the ninth century. Since its foundation the Library has been in the charge of sixty librarians...
...here it is noticeable that two widely varying accounts of his life are extant, - one by Geoffrey Monmouth, a writer of the first half of the twelfth century, which was translated from a Welsh original, written by Walter Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford; and the other by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton...
...these five colleges, - Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale. There are also about 162 graduates of some department of Harvard who are continuing their studies in the same or a different course. That is to say, out of the 1,278 students in the University, 105, or nearly one twelfth, have come from some other college, and 162 others, rather more than an eighth, have already received degrees from Harvard. Had we included the summer courses, we should have found five new colleges represented, and fourteen more foster-sons, so to speak, of our Alma Mater, besides several gentlemen...