Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bostons opened the season Fast Day, by a game with a picked nine, in which four of the Harvards played. The weather was very favorable for the time of year, and the game was close and interesting, resulting in a score of ten to eight. To-morrow the Bostons and Harvards play the first game of a series, in Boston...
...Hale scholarship, with an income of one hundred and forty dollars, and the Gordon scholarship of seventy dollars, have lately been founded, thus making, with the Bancroft, three in the Academy. The school seems to be in a prosperous condition, as one hundred and sixty-eight students are named in the catalogue...
...found that it refused to open. He felt for the knob, and attempted to turn it, but it merely slipped around without catching the latch. The horrible thought flashed upon him that the latch had broken and that he was locked up for the night. It was past eight o' clock on Saturday evening, and the passers-by were few and far between. With the calmness of desperation, he took off his rubbers and backed up against the door. He tried in vain to break it open. Then he kicked with his right foot till he was tired. Then with...
...matters of education. Whence does this arise? There are several reasons. In the first place, the children are not sent to school, or are taken away too young. Every commune, as I told you, pays its own teacher. It gives him a fixed salary, varying between four hundred and eight hundred francs a year. But this salary paid, the instruction is still not free. Each child has to contribute in addition what amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers - in districts where civilization has not yet penetrated - hesitate to pay this assessment. These people cannot themselves read, they...
...Uncle's blockade runner; interpreter needed; six weeks of Spanish verbs ought to be good enough for Cuba; we assent. Question arises about softening Faculty; Freshman has got off on account of religious scruples concerning required rhetoric. Some new dodge eminently necessary. At Freshman's suggestion sit up forty-eight hours reading diamond Tupper, take a good look at the sun, and go to see the Dean. Dean says "No," and a public for insolence; learning we want to go to Cuba, mutters "Virginius," and says "Granted." Buy four horse-pistols and some brandy. Freshman procures scissors in view...