Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dine in town, avoid all cars before half past seven, for the men who take these want to get to the theatre before the play begins, - a thing quite unendurable to any fellow of taste. You will meet more of your own style between half past seven and eight than at any other hour. The cars after this hour you will not, I hope, find it often necessary...
...coming out from Boston. When you spend the night with your uncle on Commonwealth Avenue, do not come out before ten. Grinder takes the half-past-eight car every morning; he lives at his home in East Chelsea, and has a nine-o'clock recitation - which he never cuts - every day in the week, as he takes twenty-eight hours of electives this year. An exception may be made of Monday morning, when Mr Beck, of Beacon Street, refreshed by his devotions at Trinity, takes the nine-o'clock car, to the great delight of his parents, - and then plays...
...resolution was passed to authorize Mr. Roberts to inform the Columbia Boat Club that we desire to enter into relations with that college in view of an eight-oared regatta, to take place about the time of the Yale race...
...matters. A dinner has been given to the Crew at Young's, where, amid junketing and speech-making, plans for the future were discussed; a meeting of the H. U. B. C. has been held, and has adopted the suggestions made at the dinner; and a challenge for an eight-oared race of four miles has been received from Cornell. It is stated on good authority that Columbia is eager for a race. Mr. Roberts has been authorized to write an unofficial letter to England to ascertain whether it will be possible to arrange a race with the English University...
...Watson with a bronze vase, given him by the crew as an expression of their gratitude toward him. Mr. Roberts then rose, and proposed that a letter be sent to Oxford and to Cambridge by the Secretary, unofficially, asking if they would accept a challenge to row an eight-oared race about the first of August on the Putney-to-Mortlake course; he wished first, however, to impress upon Mr. Watson the necessity of his going as coach, for the mistake made in '69 was in not having a proper manager, and he thought Mr. Watson, who was strongly urged...