Word: eight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Senior class at Exeter this year is a very strong one. Out of thirty-three members twenty-eight will come to Harvard...
...fact that the cup given for the mile-run is so much less important than that for the mile-walk. The reason, however, becomes apparent upon a little reflection. The prize for the mile-walk was bought with the money subscribed by a club-table, made conditional on eight minutes being equalled. This was the exact time made. An equally handsome cup was offered for the mile-run conditional on 4 m. 55 sec. being made. This time was not made, and the mile cup was provided by the H. A. A. The cup is a very pretty...
...Round Table has a prize essay, nearly eight columns in length, on "Individuality and Individualism." We did not have courage enough to get further than the title. It is in a state of great excitement over a coming lecture by the Rev. Joseph Cook, and urges its readers to show their "appreciation of his unexcelled talent" by a large attendance...
Cornell. - The Freshman eight are now rowing seventeen miles daily, and are being carefully coached. J. E. Read left the crew last week, but his place has been filled...
...veins, and evolved the same conclusions, as the minds of the leading philosophers and scientists of to day. It is only within a few years that theologians of established worth have been willing to admit truths in regard to the future life that the astronomer poet of Persia uttered eight centuries...