Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chambers was elected to Phi Beta Kappa last year with the Junior eight, and Emigh was on his Freshman track squad. Holden was a member of the Dramatic and Debating Clubs in his first year and is in the Social Service corps of the Phillips Brooks House. He is now Business Manager of the Cercle Francais...
...quarter of a length, over the mile course in the basin. Perkins' crew was in second place by slightly over a length, with water just showing between it and the third boat. It was a close battle between the three crews, but the better coordination of the winning eight, composed of six Sophomores, one Junior, and one Senior, was the deciding factor...
Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this...
Carnegie report enthusiasts may feel that the Western Union is out of touch with the best athletic thought of the time, since a cursory glance at the ten pep messages reveals at least eight of them as playing too great an emphasis on winning. In fact the compilers of the list frankly confess that its purpose is to "send the players out on the field with fire in their eyes and a keen determination to win." They have obviously failed to catch the amateur spirit and have made the mistake of fainting athletics with the same sort of commercialism which...
...line with the greater importance of the graduate departments that Cambridge has become a different kind of place. It is no longer a suburb of moderate size, not easy of access from the neighboring city. Harvard Square is eight minutes by subway from the heart of Boston. Old Cambridge is part of the metropolis. Its aspect has changed, and is rapidly changing more and more...