Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...average daily consumption at Memorial Hall is: Of flour, about two and a half barrels; of milk, one hundred and twenty gallons; of meat, one thousand pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds of turkey are usually demolished in one dinner, and it takes a barrel of fruit to furnish dessert...
Athwart the gleaming cliffs the sea-mews screech. Four streams, down-trickling from an azure lake, Mid rocks and ferns a rhythmic rippling make...
...Lieutenant, J. S. Mitchell, '80; 1st Sergeant, H. W. Savage, '80; 2d Sergeant, W. A. Pugh, '80. Recruits will be received for this company from the upper classes, or any department of the University, on Mondays, at 6.30 P. M., the regular drill nights. The Freshman companies drill four nights weekly, two nights under General Lister, and two under instructors who are candidates for positions in the corps. The election for officers will be held on the last Tuesday in November. The requisite number of names having been appended to the Constitution, application will at once be made...
...students who have this year elected any of the higher courses in mathematics is a discredit to the institution. Only five have elected Integral Calculus; the course in analytic mechanics is not taken at all; and no one of the other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible to so few men, all except...
Captain Bancroft said that he had had an interview with Captain Thompson, in which the four charges that Captain Thompson was said to have made against the referee were disposed of as follows: Captain Thompson denied that he had charged the referee with coaching the Harvard crew before the race. Captain Bancroft explained that the referee had not only so changed a buoy as to indicate a bed of weeds in Harvard's course, for which Captain Thompson had accused the referee of unfairness, but that he had also removed a snag from Yale's course. Captain Thompson admitted that...