Word: eight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Thomas William Lewis, of Caius College, has been appointed President of the Cambridge University Rowing Club, vice Mr. P. W. Brancker, who in leaving Cambridge leaves a vacancy in the University Eight. It is thought, however, that Mr. Prest, son, of the Archdeacon of Durham, will take the vacant seat. He is said to be a fair oar, as his father was when he was an undergraduate at St. John's College...
...first eight of the Pi Eta from '78 are: C. I. Adams, G. K. Boutelle, C. E. Gowen, C. Harrington, M. Hasbrouck, W. Kessler, H. W. Mason, J. M. Miles...
...University crew took its last row for the season on Monday, having had more than eight weeks of practice on the river. Never before, we believe, has nearly so much work been accomplished in the fall term by a Harvard crew; and never before has a Harvard crew been, at this time, so far advanced. Fourteen men will now leave the boat and commence work on the machines...
...Oberlin student, although he spends fifty-eight days in the exclusive pursuit of "social refinement," does not, according to the Review, derive the benefit he should from his rare chance for social culture...
...committed the fallacy of composition; having empirically learned that you can carry a beer, a straight, or a Tom and Jerry singly, you do wrong in reasoning that you can carry them together. By Jupiter, you must have imbibed enough to bridge the infernal regions for the space of eight stades," - I fear he meant enough to patch - a mile, but am not certain; "in fact," he continued, "your symmetrical form is in jeopardy...