Word: eight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these photographs, the eclipse of 1889 will be looked upon, among men devoted to the study of practical astronomy, as marking an epoch in the history of solar physics. The great thirteen-inch Boyden telescope, with a lens specially corrected for photographic work, was successfully operated in securing eight large-scale pictures of the sun's corona, and these appear certain to be the finest representations of this strange object ever obtained. Up to this perion the great trouble has been that the representations of the sun's corona have been of so small a size as utterly to preclude...
...crew, and we can only urge the college at large firmly to support these efforts. Every possible means should be put at the disposal of the crew to make their training successful, and the active co-operation of the students will go far towards the success of the eight next spring. With the rowing tank, the new float, the courtesies of the Shawmut Boat Club, and the energy displayed by the captain of the crew, Harvard may certainly be hopeful of success in next year's race...
Yesterday afternoon two sets of candidates for the university crew rowed to the Union boat house and back. The first eight was made up as follows: Bow, Higgins; 2, Staunton, 3, Tyson; 4, Winthrop, 5, Hebard; 6, Longworth; 7, Hammond; stroke, Herrick; coxswain, Farquhar. The second crew were: Bow, Sanford; 2, Cumnock; 3, Perry; 4, Longwerth; 5, Finlay; 6, Tilton; 7, Hutchinson; stroke. Herrick; coxswain, Farquhar...
...self-sacrifice, it seems quite in place for us to urge the college boating men of long experience to select some one of their number as coach for the candidates for the freshman crew. This duty is at present performed by the captain and coxswain of the '92 eight, men who, from the nature of the case are too inexperienced to coach others in the best manner, and who themselves need the advice of experienced oarsmen. To retrieve the honor of Harvard in rowing matters, '92 must put a winning crew upon the river next spring, and no legitimate means...
DEAR SIR: The challenge of the Yale freshman class to row an eight-oared two-mile straightaway race with the Harvard freshmen, at New London, next June, date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter, has been received, and is under consideration...