Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About $40,000 a year are now paid out to scholarships, loans, and other pecuniary aids to poor students; of which considerable sums, about one-eighth, is paid to students of theology, somewhat more than one-seventh to bachelors of arts or science who are pursuing studies not professional, and about five-sevenths to candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts. Of the money paid to undergraduates in arts, two-thirds are returned to the college in tuition fees; but the other two departments receive but a small return in this...
...second; Columbia being second with 4 first prizes and 7 second; Lehigh third, with 2 first; Princeton fourth, with 1 first, and 2 second; Yale and University of Penn., tied for fifth place with 1 first and 1 second each; Stevens seventh with 1 first, and Dartmouth eighth with 1 second prize...
...incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors. As there are 1,365 blocks altogether in Boylston, and as two men can clip two and one-eighth stones in one day 25 hours and 76 minutes, one will see at a glance that men who are now betting six to one that the Chinese professor will complete it in three years are sure losers...
...EIGHTH-OF-A-MILE...
...Honors List of the University of London's matriculation examination the first name is that of a young lady; and at Cambridge another young lady, Miss Scott, answered papers set for the mathematical tripos in a manner that would entitle her to the eighth place on the list of wranglers...