Word: eight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probable that the University of Pennsylvania will enter an eight-oared crew in the regatta to be held at Lake Quinsigamond on the 17th...
...those days, and indeed the college authorities formulated rules specifying the exact conduct to be followed by a student in each particular on meeting a superior. One of the rules was as follows: "A student shall raise his hat at a distance of ten rods from the president, at eight rods from a professor, and at five rods from a tutor." In 1776, when Battell Chapel was first occupied, President Porter attempted to abolish the senior bow, but the seniors were so strongly in favor of preserving it that he yeilded to the continuation of the time honored custom...
...first sale of Class Day tickets to seniors will take place June 11 from 2 to 4 p. m., at 1 Stoughton. Packages and yard tickets will be sold. Each package will contain three Sanders, eight Tree and ten Memorial tickets, and the price will be $9.00. Each senior may obtain one package. Other sales for seniors will take place on Wednesday, June 12 from 2 to 3.30 p. m., and on Friday, June 14, from 1.30 to 3.30. On Wednesday graduating members of other departments of the university may purchase small packages as stated in the circulars. Sales...
...have been some extraordinary expenses this year, the benefit of which the boat club will continue to receive in future years. The new tank, which will continue to be serviceable for years to come, either to the university or class crews, cost the boat club five hundred dollars. Twenty-eight hundred dollars were raised by subscription among the graduates to pay for the new launch; the boat club in addition to this, itself, paid on this account, four hundred and fifty dollars, besides two hundred for a few minor alterations and the expense of getting the launch to Cambridge...
...interesting to compare the best English college records with the best performances of college athletes in America. It seems that out of a total of eleven events the Englishmen hold eight, the American colleges two, while one event, the 100 yards dash, is a tie, at 10 seconds. The following is a carefully prepared table showing the best records so far announced, for American and English colleges...