Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because he wanted it to keep with the room," for, two dollars. It was not till eight years afterwards that it ceased to have any mercenary connections, and became a regular transmittendum, and from that time to this it has been priceless...
...Freshmen have voted to challenge Yale to row in an eight...
...Nineteen members of the class of '76 are continuing their studies in New Haven. Five are in the Law School, four in the Medical School, eight in the post-graduate department, and two are studying theology...
...Wednesday evening it was voted that the regular fall championship match take place Saturday, December 16. To give interest to the match competitors will be divided into two classes; to the first any member will be admitted, to the second none who have ever made a score of thirty-eight or more out of a possible fifty in any match whatsoever. Of course no second-class man will be entitled to a first-class prize...
...November was a month of great athletic activity at the English universities. Rowing, foot-races, cricket, and foot-ball were all attended to, to say nothing of the "meets" of the Bicycle Clubs. At three meetings of the Cambridge club the "runs" on bicycles were, respectively, twenty-one, twenty-eight, and twenty-seven miles...