Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Notice to Seniors.The metre of the Class Song is eight and six syllables, and not long metre, as stated last week in the Advocate...
...present composition of the Yale eight oared crew that is to row with Harvard at Springfield, Mass., next June, is as follows: Edmund P. Livingston (bow), Frederick Wood, E. C. Cooke, W. W. Collin, David Hyde Kellogg, Charles N. Fowler, Julian Kennedy, Robert J. Cook (stroke...
...Hasty Pudding for the benefit of the Boat Club will take place at Horticultural Hall, Thursday and Friday evenings, and Saturday afternoon, April 27, 28, and 29. Two burlesques and three farces will be given, each performance consisting of a burlesque, preceded by a farce. Performances to begin at eight and half past two. Tickets may now be obtained at No. 45 Weld...
...promiscuous contests at Saratoga, the balky, unmanageable Rowing Association, will not have been wholly useless, if because of the dissatisfaction they have caused, we are led to adopt, permanently, the English method of a four-mile race in an eight-oared boat steered by a coxswain. It looks now as if our boating men would, after this year, never engage in any other kind of a contest. This state of affairs necessarily causes a revolution in the training of our University crew. The revolution has already begun, and great care should be taken at the outset to establish a high...
...Hall, one of the principal buildings, was burnt. The final battle was at a place that went by the name of "The Annuals." The government was completely defeated, and fell into the hands of their subjects. After some discussion they were placed in boats, in bands of six or eight, and compelled to row out to sea. This the men called the "withdrawal from the association." The officers were never seen again. The victorious townsmen then erected a large hall as a memorial of their valor, and afterwards seem to have emigrated, as no further mention of them is known...