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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second eight of the O. K. are as follows: S. Bullard, J. R. Holmes, A. P. Loring, E. L. Morse, E. W. Morse, B. Sachs, B. Tuckerman, H. Wheeler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...seen fit to assume. Waiving the question of constitutionality, the compromise which the Board has effected seems, on the whole, eminently satisfactory both to the early and to the late risers. The men who, during this most busy time of the year, wish to have breakfast after half past eight, are few compared with those who have so far appeared at the Hall before Chapel exercises. To be sure, the post-Chapel is much inferior to the pre-Chapel breakfast; but, if this sacrifice on the part of a few who prefer to work at night and sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...hundred and sixteen College graduates now in attendance at the Columbia L. w School, forty-eight graduated at Yale, thirty-seven at Columbia, thirty-one at the College of the City of New York, seventeen at Princeton, and thirteen at Harvard. Of the one hundred and twelve College graduates at the Harvard Law School, sixty-nine graduated at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...much in earnest; this is particularly the case with law students, some of whom have threatened to leave the Association unless a change is made. Accordingly, the Directors, at their last meeting, voted to have breakfast begin at seven, and to have the doors remain open until half past eight, hoping thus to accommodate both the early and the late risers. The plan was adopted, however, subject to the steward's approval, and as the steward objects to having the doors open for more than an hour, it cannot go into operation. It is now proposed to have breakfast from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...submitting your head to the skilful manipulation of an experienced phrenologist. There's lots of lives wasted because people don't find out what they 're fitted for and what they ain't. Now I, sir, who have been a professor of this science for thirty-seven years and eight months will unfold to you, for the paltry sum of fifty cents, truths about yourself worth millions. Here, sir, is the most valuable thing you ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AGED CALLER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

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