Word: eight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...November 1 the University team will run the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over the latter's course and the eight or nine best men will run against Yale at New Haven on November 13, in the first cross-country run ever held between Harvard and Yale. The intercollegiate run will be held at Priceton again this year on November 27. The number of men to be entered by each college has been increased from seven to nine and the number whose points count from four...
From the Junior class eight men are to be elected out of the 12 ranking highest, as heretofore. In the Senior year, however, the first eight will elect 22 men from the Senior class out of the 44 highest in rank who are not already members. Hitherto 17 out of the highest 25 have been elected. Furthermore, these 30 members from the Senior class will elect five "additional members," whose names may not be included in the list of the 52 highest in rank. In former years these "additional members" have been elected in June by the whole society...
...eight has the right of way over a four; a four has the right of way over a pair; and a pair has the right of way over a single...
Exception: A four with a launch has the right of way over an eight not with a launch...
...profits of the year's business have been sufficient, after making due allowance for depreciation, and after defraying the cost of the extensive alterations made in the Society's store during the summer, to pay the eight per cent, dividend and leave substantial amount for addition to the Society's surplus...