Word: eight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Norton invites all students of the various departments of the University who may remain in Cambridge during the Christmas holidays, away from home, to give him the pleasure of their company on Christmas eve, from eight to ten o'clock...
Professor Norton invites all students of the various departments of the University who may remain in Cambridge during the Christmas holidays, away from home, to give him the pleasure of their company on Christmas eve, from eight to ten o'clock...
...outlook for a strong crew is excellent, since five of last year's eight are still in college and eligible to row. They are: Stroke, Williams; 7, Niedecken; 6, Captain Allen; 5, Brown; 2, Wickes. If Brown declines to row, four places will be left vacant. The men who rowed on last year's university four are all in college. Walton, who has been coxswain for three years, has graduated, and, as the coxswains of the freshman crew and of the four have both grown too heavy, this place will be vacant...
...closest mayoralty contests ever held in Cambridge, Edgar R. Champlin L. '80, mayor during the past year, was re-elected yesterday. He defeated his principal opponent, David T. Dickinson '88, by a majority of about eight hundred votes. The city voted no-license for the fourteenth successive year by a majority of one thousand. W. H. Lewis L. '95, Thorndike Spalding '95, J. D. Merrill '89, and Stoughton Bell '96, were elected members of the Common Council...
...class have to be scattered among too large a number of nominees. This applies especially to the committee's, which, though esteemed minor honors, are very great in importance. Usually there are not more than four men for each committee who deserve to be elected. But if eight or more nominations are made for each committee, and a number of Seniors are induced to vote for candidates whose chance of success is small, chiefly for reasons of personal loyalty, the election may miscarry. The committee which ought to have consisted...