Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman oarsmen will row in the Leviathan for the rest of this week but will then be made up into crews. However, Coach Haines intends to keep these boats as nearly equal as possible and will not pick a first eight until the latter part of this month or the first of April. At that time a first, second and third Freshman boat will be chosen as well as two 150-pound first year eights. Because of the death of coxswains all first year men interested have been asked to report at Weld Boat House today at 2.30 o'clock...
...Dead. Eight passengers were killed when the famed Scarborough Express collided in the fog with a local train near Hull, wounding 30. Cross Channel Service was suspended for the first time in 50 years. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of the Belgians, in London to open an exhibit of Flemish art, were unable to get back to Belgium by either sea or air until the fog cleared. The loss to steamship concerns exceeded...
...puppy, Riff-Raff, by throwing sticks for the latter to fetch out on the thin ice of Sunset Lake [Vassar campus pond]. Once the stick skittered far from shore. Riff-Raff, scampering after it, saw too late a hole yawning in the ice. He set his feet, slid into eight feet of water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards, she went to Riff-Raff across the cracking ice, dragged him out, wrapped...
...pupils won the game, eight matches to seven. Fathers explained to mothers: "I was all out of practice." Mothers consoled fathers: "Never mind. The children will never get out of practice after being trained by that Teacher Gaylord...
...Eight years ago Dr. Abbott was "Bott" Abbott to Yale oarsmen- their head coach in 1918-19. In 1917 he had organized the Yale Naval Unit. Before that he was famed as a professor of Greek and Latin at ultra-conservative Groton School, to which he went, with his bride, in 1897. Further back are his Nova Scotia birth, his training at King's College (Windsor, N. S.) and Worcester College, Oxford...