Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mould into shape, the Harvard baseball nine will definitely put the lid on winter this afternoon when it takes the field against the Boston University team. The game, which is scheduled for 3 o'clock at Soldiers Field, is the opening tilt for both teams, and marks the eighth successive year in which the two nines have commenced their seasons together. Of the annual season opener contests since 1923 Harvard has won five. Boston University two, while one game was called off on account of poor weather...
Under the leadership of Captain M.T. Hill '31, the combined Harvard-Yale tennis team will invade England to play Oxford and Cambridge in the eighth dual meeting of the four universities for the Presntice Cup. The matches will take place at Eastbourne, England, from Saturday, August 1, to Monday, August...
Yesterday the eighth wonder occurred--in fact it is the consummation of wonders--the Crimson printed an editorial published a while ago in the Daily. We heard that the Daily was mentioned in the Crimson. We tore around searching for a Crimson (one was found in the Dean's office--it can be seen as a curiosity at any time). We looked on the editorial page, and sure enough; the august Crimson has deigned to notice us. We are not stating just what our reactions were to this notice...
Referring to the argument that restricted families might prevent the birth of great men (viz. Benjamin Franklin, 10th son of his father, eighth child of his mother), Mrs. Sanger popped out: "I call your attention to the fact that the great leader of Christianity, Jesus Christ, was said to be an only child." Her unlearned remark** immediately raised hubbub...
...ranking of the states shows the first five places unchanged, with Massachusetts leading by a large margin, New York second, Pennsylvania third, Ohio fourth, and New Jersey fifth. California and Illinois have changed places, the former moving from seventh to sixth, the latter from sixth to seventh. Connecticut remains eighth, Michigan has risen from tenth to ninth, and Maine changed from eleventh to tenth...