Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dartmouth showing an unexpectedly well balanced team followed the Trojans in qualifying the most men with nine Yale and Penn State with eight each, Penn with seven, Princeton with six, and Pittsburgh, Michigan State, Harvard, and California with five each followed in that order...
...Crimson crews, the University and the Seconds, pulled out for New York State last night and will row on Lake Cayuga this morning and afternoon in preparation for the race tomorrow. The eights realize that they have a hard task ahead of them at Ithaca. Cornell boast eight of the most powerful oarsmen in the East and two miles is their distance...
Today we want a mile of wire fencing eight feet high, 40 vacuum cleaners, and window curtains for 145 windows, all different. Yesterday there were 2,500 mosquito screens for the Business School; 12,000 napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right...
...McKinlock Hall dormitory crew, which won the dormitory championship last week, defeated the Middlesex oarsmen by three lengths in a half mile tilt on the Charles yesterday afternoon. In this clash the dormitory eight lead from the start and displayed a brand of watermanship and rowing ability clearly superior to that of the schoolboys, covering the half mile in 2 minutes 43 1-5 seconds...
George Pearson Rhodes Jr. '30 of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was appointed manager of the Freshman baseball team as the result of an eight week competition which ended yesterday. John Harris Ward '30, of Kansas City, Missouri, was appointed assistant manager...