Word: eight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which is offered by six Harvard men is of solid silver and very heavy. It is between eight and nine inches high and about the same in diameter. The body of the cup resembles in shape half a Rugby foot-ball. About the top of the cup is a band of olive leaves in raised silver, and below this is another band on which is placed the name of the cup. Upon the wide space below, which runs round the body of the cup, are morning glories and leaves raised in silver, the leaves being left blank for the inscriptions...
This fall, players from eight of the colleges took part in the tournament-Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Wesleyan not sending any entries. The tournament was held at New Haven and Harvard won again in the singles through P. Sears, but lost the doubles to Hall and Campbell of Columbia, the winners of the first place in the United States championship tournament. Sears and Shaw, however, won second place in doubles and Hall of Columbia in singles...
...Bardwell, an English mathematician, claims to have squared the circle after fifteen year's work. His solution is eight figures, which, in concrete shape, form a perfect cyclometer...
There were fifteen hounds at the start, all of whom kept up to the break. The race in from Porter's Station was very close and was won by Gorham, '90, with Davenport, '90, second. The hares reached the gymnasium at 4.42. The hounds were eight minutes behind thus losing only one minute actual time. The trail was so straight and plain that they had no difficulty in keeping up a steady pace. As the hounds won, cups will be given to Gorham and Davenport...
...initiation dinner of the first eight of the Phi Beta Kappa from '89 was held at the Hotel Victoria last evening. The secretary, Mr. Winkler, presided and acted as toast-master. Each new member read a part in answer to a toast. The subjects were as follows: Mr. Ropes, "The Hesperornis, the Apteryx and the Dodo, in their relation to the Myrmecobius and Plato's Doctrine of Ideas." Mr. Shoemaker, "Harvard Oratory, may it ever be what an Adams, an Everett, and a Quincy have made it." Mr. Cabot, "The Transcendental Unity of Aperception." Mr. Warren, "The size and relations...