Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cook, President; F. C. Eldred, Vice President; A. J. Boardman, Secretary; E. M. Hartwell, Treasurer. The question as to the day of the regatta then came up. Mr. Sanger's motion that the day be July 14 was objected to by Amherst, as it gave them only four days between the close of their academic year and the regatta, while the term for the "Aggies" does not close until July 17. The expense and difficulty of keeping the other colleges waiting was acknowledged, as well as the unfairness of it, so the day finally fixed upon was July...
...Forty-Second Congress contained ten graduates of Yale and three of Harvard." - Record. Such a candid confession goes far toward disarming criticism. Indeed, we half believe that the natural tendencies of this unfortunate ten incited them to their disreputable courses, almost as much as the effect of four years at New Haven. We hope that the paragraph will not have so bad an influence upon the size of '77 at Yale, as we apprehend...
...accomplish all this, the Society has been at an expense of between four and five hundred dollars, more than half of which was subscribed at the meeting at which the change was decided upon, and the balance was forthcoming in so generous a manner as to give the strongest evidence of the growing interest felt for the society. So much for what has been done. It is in the future, however, that the Sophomores look for the best fruit of their labors, and are anxious that the spirit of progress, inaugurated by them, should find some worthy champions in those...
...University Echo, Oakland, California, in the language of the honest miner, appears to have seen itself and gone four pages better; or, on second thoughts, suppose we say larger! It has a good deal of news, a superabundance of poetry, and one very entertaining article on "Roads and Railroads," some portions of which may be useful to our readers. "From numerous widely extended and highly scientific observations on the subject, we deduce the following laws...
...something of the same tendency in ourselves? Of course I do not claim that it is developed in any of us to the same degree it was in that representative man, for the very good reason that few of us feel desirous or able to spend the three or four millions required annually to support the spread-eagle style on such a scale before a gaping world. Do not, however, set down the trait as a characteristic of him alone, or even, as you may quite willingly do, attribute it also to A, and admit that you have observed...