Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Council of Lowell. He occupied several minor offices in Lowell and was elected Mayor of Lowell in 1880-81. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, in 1885 was a member of the legislature and in the same year was elected to Congress from the eighth district. He was denominated in 1892 but was defeated...
...representative in the Legislature in 1874, Senator in 1876, and Representative to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth Congresses. He was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1884, and re-elected...
...eighth ten of the Institute of 1770 from '98 was taken out last night in the following order...
...President does not tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives us the striking fact that the courses most largely taken, which altogether involve about twice as much work as one student could perform in four years, comprise only one-eighth of the whole amount of instruction offered by Harvard College. The "other seven-eighths," he observes, "although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the wants of a comparatively small but precious minority, and secondly...
...Meteorology. The President then shows that if the courses in this list are summed up they contain an amount of work at least twice as great as any undergraduate can perform in four years. The amount of instruction on the list may be roughly computed to be about one-eighth of the total amount of instruction offered by Harvard College; but this eighth meets the chief want of the great majority of the students, and the other seven-eighths, although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first...