Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...OVER eight hundred tickets to the Natural History Society lectures have been called for. This course of lectures is so popular that it is hoped that students will not ask for more tickets than they expect...
...meeting of the Freshman Class on Wednesday evening last an acceptance was read from the Columbia Freshmen of the challenge to row an eight-orared, straightaway race with coxswains, time to be agreed upon hereafter. The Columbia Freshmen also accepted the suggestion of New London as a suitable place, and the race will, therefore, be rowed there. The President of the class was authorized to appoint a committee of three to arrange all matters pertaining to the race...
...covered with mathematical instruments, for he did not teach mathematics; the explanation soon came. He first showed me six trifling errors in my book; then he drew a circle with a radius of six inches, inscribed an equilateral triangle, and multiplied half its altitude by twenty; that gave forty-eight, my mark. I asked him to explain the principle on which he did it; but he replied that he had been a long time inventing the process, and knew it was the only fair one. I thought that "his drift was shady," and left...
...three mile race, with turn, for class eights with coxswains; prizes, a pair of silk flags, inscribed, one with the names of the members of the winning crew, the other with the date of the race and the year of the class. These flags to be class property. Also, for each of the eight victors and their coxswain there will...
...well known that the Passaic, Triton, and Eureka boat-clubs of Newark have intrusted to the N. A. A. O. three massive silver cups, to be annually offered as challenge prizes, for the exclusive competition of undergraduate oarsmen, rowing respectively in eights, fours, and singles. The races are to be straightaway, and the definition of "undergraduate" is to be the same as that which was maintained by the R. A. A. C. during the last four years of its history. The races are to be rowed either at Newark or Saratoga, during the first week of July...