Word: eight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eight-oar is being got together to row the University...
...some quarters, now that the deed is done, much unavailing regret is heard in Seventy-seven. But never yet, as far as I have been able to ascertain, has any amount of lamentation succeeded in transferring the milk, once spilt, into the pitcher again. It now remains for seventy-eight to say whether more milk is to be spilt next year...
DEAR SIR, - At a meeting of the Columbia College Boat-Club, held on the 26th inst., a Resolution was passed authorizing the President of the Club to challenge the Harvard University Boat-Club to an eight-oared shell race, to be rowed at any time after June 26, 1877; the place and distance to be left to the choice of Harvard...
...next race. To him the students return their most hearty thanks. On Wednesday night the crew made their first trip in the new Blakey shell. The dimensions of this boat are: length, 58 feet; width, 23 1/2 inches; weight, 225 pounds. This is undoubtedly one of the finest eight-oars ever built. On the paper boat also the makers seem to have expended all their skill. The crew now have an opportunity of fairly testing the two shells, and deciding the much disputed question of the comparative merits of cedar and paper for boat building. Mr. W. B. Close...
...rather postpone their subscription till next year; but we must remind them that it is very likely that there will be no clubs next year to join. By the arrangements which have been made with Mr. Blakey, and on which the existence of the clubs now hangs, unless about eight more men join each club and pay their money this year, the club-system must be numbered among the things of the past. The evil of this state of things is apparent to all. If the clubs are discontinued no persons...