Word: eight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clearest, and it is a time also when there are none of the distractions of athletics or entertainment which accompany the afternoon and evening hours. Again, considered from the sluggard's standpoint, the change is not a serious one. Seven o'clock in summer is not as early as eight in winter, and it is also much the cooler and pleasanter time for study, - a valuable consideration in view of the hot summer days. But this morning hour cannot be secured without a change in the breakfast and chapel hours, since studying before breakfast is difficult and exhaustive, while breakfast...
...Sumner, who during his lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library 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...
...plan, which is being seriously considered, of changing the breakfast hour at Memorial from eight to seven o'clock, with the understanding that the chapel hour shall remain where it now is, seems altogether undesirable. It would cause an immense amount of inconvenience without giving any compensating gain in time. The time allotted for breakfast would be shortened nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental...
...hard worker. Shut off from society, compelled to pass four years of exhausting, unremitting labor in dingy dormitories and uncomfortable recitation-rooms, the poor student, who depends solely on his own high rank for his daily bread, has few of the amenities of life. After six or eight hours of sustained intellectual effort, an hour or two in the course of a week spent in dancing, or a half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists...
...March 1st, twenty days earlier than last year, the crew were out on the river, and since then have been able, except on Wednesday last, to get daily practice. The eight, as first made up, was as follows: Harriman 1, W. Le Moyne 2, Legate 3, Smith 4, Brigham 5, Schwartz 6, Jacobs 7, and Bancroft 8. Various changes have since been made in the forward part of the boat. From the men named, and from F. Le Moyne, Crocker, and Littauer, the crew will be selected. The other candidates have been distributed among the Freshman and Club crews...