Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school. For one thing it is bringing more students, and is bringing them earlier. Parents evidently feel that if they are going to get their children into good colleges, they have to get them started early. So applications to Middlesex, and particularly to the younger classes (seventh and eighth grades) have been unusually heavy this year, and much of the growth of the school will be in these younger grades...
...Eighth grade students learn enough chemistry to determine simple compounds of some twenty-odd elements, enough astronomy to calculate roughly the winter solstice with hand-made tools or to ask why the orbit of the moon is not a true ellipse, and enough geometry and trigonometry to construct very accurate maps on conic and other projections...
Astronomy receives the most attention in the eighth grade. Basic scientific concepts of space and time are presented, and the student's idea of time as something on a wristwatch is shaken when the teacher forces him to examine what he actually means by a "year." He begins to think how the ancients measured, with only rough instruments, the recurrence of the solstice, and how they had to repeat this many times to average and fix the duration of the year. By December the students are able to measure the solstice within a few days, and they understand their instruments...
...reexamination continued, and certainly no definite answers were reached (the Houses often had trouble spending anywhere near all of their Ford money). But with an eighth House under construction and a ninth and tenth to come, it seemed clear that the discussion was far from concluded...
...Harvard Glee Club Foundation awarded its Glee Club Medal to G. Wallace Woodworth '24 at last night's Centennial Celebration Concert in Sanders Theatre. 'Woody" is the eighth recipient of the medal...