Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...brought the historical method down to a finer point of "coldness" than I can now boast of; but this is certain, that the rock of mutual mistrust and obstinacy they split on is still in existence for the next class to be shattered on, and it behooves Seventy-eight, if she wishes to keep up this time-honored custom of our fathers, to take warning. Already there is noticeable among men who hold a prominent position, both in the class and in the Faculty, an attempt to chill all ardor on this subject, with the hope that, being an unnecessary...
...Directors, without consulting the wishes of the Association, but feeling strongly in favor of the change which they ultimately made, took upon themselves power to say that the student shall come at quarter past seven if he wish a good breakfast, and that he must come before half past eight if he wish any breakfast at all. This seems to us to be a proceeding which, though in this case productive of good, is legally unjustifiable. We understand that they have power, not to make laws, but only to carry out the wishes of the Association; and a question...
...dactyl is very unclassical. Of line seventh we can make nothing at all. The quantities run ____V ____V ____V ____VV ____, which no human power can get into a verse. But we strongly doubt if the translator knew that the em in falcem would go out before et, since line eight can only be scanned at all by keeping am in maturam before ab. In the same line, quo, though not positively wrong, should be rather...
Here, then, in five lines out of eight, is a series of radical blunders in quantity and formation, every one of which requires no further reading than the first book of the Aeneid to set right. After that, considerations of the general style, transference of thought, building up of sentences, are superfluous. There is so much fatally bad that it is not worth asking if there is anything good...
DURING the past two weeks, rain or shine, the crew have been steadily taking their daily pulls. They row each afternoon from five to eight miles, generally in the shell, but sometimes, for more careful coaching, in the barge. The two substitutes also practice daily, in a pairoar. The coach comes out from Boston several times a week, and is earnestly laboring to turn out a victorious crew from the eight strong, rugged fellows who have been selected to represent us at Springfield. The crew are steadily improving, and are much farther advanced than - so far as the writer...