Word: eight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Eight Freshmen are training for the class crew, and thirteen or fourteen are trying for the class nine...
...distance. Suppose a man lives sixty or seventy miles from Cambridge, and does not wish to incur the expense necessary to going each week, yet wishes to go at irregular intervals throughout the year. He cannot. Unless he goes home on every one of the thirty-eight Sundays of the Academic year, he must limit himself to six. Is this fair...
...class in heavy gymnastics, numbering seventy-eight members, is divided into four sections according to strength. Twenty-eight marks are required to enter the first division, twenty-two the second, seventeen the third, and twelve the fourth. The basis for assigning marks is as follows: "The applicant places himself between the parallel bars, resting upon his hands with arms straight. He then lowers himself by bending the arms until they are in a flexed condition, then rises again. One mark is allowed each time he rises. The flexors of the arms and some of the chest-muscles are tested...
...There are thirty-eight Roman Catholic colleges in this country...
...already in February, and yet but one of the Boat Clubs has begun work of any kind. The example set by Holyoke certainly deserves the imitation of the other clubs. Twelve men have been at work in the Gymnasium for some weeks, and eight more are to begin after the Semiannuals. The other clubs have as yet not even opened a book for the names of those who wish to try for the crews. The races last year were so poor that few went to see them, and so little training had been done that those who rowed were wholly...