Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...income of the school available for its maintenance, excluding the income of scholarship and beneficiary funds, amounts to $16,000; general expenses estimated at $2,000, leaving but $14,000 for salaries of teachers, - a sum which will support three professorships and a half. During 1877-78 there were four professors two lecturers upon History, and an instructor in Elocution; and accordingly the school had a deficit of $3,857.19. There are now (1878-79) employed in the school three professors, a lecturer on Ecclesiastical History, and an instructor in Elocution. The President urges the pressing need of further endowment...
...unprofitable; but with one pleasing difference, that none of them is over a column and a half in length. When platitudes are the order of the day, those who write them most briefly deserve most credit and most thanks. In the Bowdoin Orient we find an essay of four columns in length on Emerson, which tells us nothing new, and suggests as little. We should have more patience with it, were it cut down, as it easily might be, to the length of the articles in the Syracusan...
...Freshman year," said he, "I roomed in Holyoke. I did n't study very much, but still I led a pretty steady life. One night in the middle of October, about ten o'clock, there were four fellows in my room, and we were all laughing loudly over some bon-mots, when a knock was heard, and in came a head, which opened its mouth and gravely said, 'Gentlemen, it is after nine o'clock, and you are keeping me awake; I must therefore warn you to make less noise,' and then disappeared. 'It's your proctor,' yelled the company...
...speaking of our proposed race with Oxford, says that it is improbable that that college will row Harvard, as the general University sentiment seems to be against it. This paper also says, in speaking of our race with Oxford in 1869, that Oxford's crew was the best four-oar she ever...
ROWING.M. A. A. O. - The Metropolitan Association of Amateur Oarsmen of New York have issued a programme for their next regatta on July 4, 1879. The races are for eight-oared shells with coxswains, and four-oared shells without coxswains, open only to college clubs; four-oared and six-oared shells with coxswains for juniors; four-oared, pair-oared, and double and single sculls for seniors and juniors, open to any amateur club. Apparently the first part of the programme is intended as an opposition to the National Association, who have just offered such handsome cups for college crews only...