Word: eight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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BLAKEY has finished the eight-oared barge for the University crew. It is built of white-pine, with mahogany wash-boards. A small keel covered with iron will protect the bottom in some degree from shoals and other obstructions. The dimensions are 47 feet by 38 inches; those of a six-oared barge are 44 feet by 26 inches...
...dress-suits, that the class in question would have to purchase a suit for which they would have no use afterwards. This objection may be made against our returning to the old Class-Day costume; but it should have little force, for it need cost no man more than eight dollars to dress himself properly on his Class Day. I earnestly hope that the matter will be seriously considered, and that on the 23d of June the Senior class will appear in the conventional cap and gown...
...they are dropped, the opinion of Cambridge firemen to the contrary, not withstanding. But the most singular characteristic of this ancient institution, as recorded here, is the marking off of divisions of the day by signal-bells instead of by hours: thus ten strokes means either rise or retire; eight means meals; six means prayers, and so on. Imagine the maiden of that day listening, half awake, to the signal strokes, and then wildly leaping into cavalry boots and ulster, - we mean balmorals and water-proof, - see her rushing to the chapel door, only to find that she counted...
...within the hall, and correcting some rash statements without. In the Crimson for December 10 will be found an ably written article on the needs of Memorial Hall, embracing, in a general way, nearly all the species of complaints made by reasoning students; smacking, it is true, of the eight-dollar boarding-houses, yet far less unreliable than an editorial on this subject in the same paper, or than a still more untrustworthy one in the Advocate for January 10. It is in the light of careful investigations made by the Directors during the month of January that...
SMOKE was seen rising from the roof of Hollis at about eight minutes before eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning, and the building was soon surrounded by a large crowd. A line was formed from the pump to the upper story, buckets were passed up, and water was thrown into the smoke, but not - as it proved afterwards - upon the fire. The alarm was sounded three minutes before the hour, and Engine I was at the nearest hydrant within two minutes after the clock struck. The hose-carriage was somewhat later in reaching the scene, but at 11.5 a hose...