Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oarsmen will not be able to meet the Blue crew on that date their comparative strengths cannot be tested until they match strokes at the Henley in Philadelphia on May 28. To this regatta Coach E. J. Brown '96 intends to send a heavy crew; either the best class eight or a combination of the best men from all the class boats. There will be no official third eight this year...
...Eight of the men who have thus far been on the A squad were dropped to the class crews yesterday, leaving the first group composed of four boats. These crews are to choose captains some time in the near future, probably next week, and will remain practically intact until the spring vacation with the exception of a frequent alteration of strokes. At that time first and second eights will be picked by Coach Brown...
Coach Brown, mentor of the University crews, announced that he intends to in his men on the water today in shells. The A squad, which has thus far been composed of five crews, is now reduced to four boats due to the fact that eight men have been dropped from that group to the B squad. The crews which are still retained on the first squad will elect captains sometime in the near future, according to Coach Brown. The strokes of these crews, however, are to be alternated although the crews themselves are to be kept practically intact for some...
...emerges as a peg for behaviorist psychology. Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells...
...least there seems to be some value in a demonstration in which they exhibited: a three-quarter bed which constricts itself into a slender couch, two chiffoniers which measure eight inches and twenty inches in width, a reading table for the bed with top the size of a dinner plate, chairs no more rugged than most people's bridge tables, vases and lamps which economize themselves as they go skyward as rapidly as Gothic spires...