Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the Junior class was held on Monday evening to adopt some plan for defraying a still outstanding debt of between three and four hundred dollars, incurred by the class crew. It was unanimously decided to raise the necessary funds by subscription, the subscribed amounts to be paid in monthly instalments for the three remaining months of the term, or until the debt is paid...
...open to teams of four men each from any recognized athletic, rowing, or college association, two substitutes allowed...
...last twenty years. Among the many prominent contributors of books was Charles Sumner, who during his lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight volumes of manuscripts used by Jared Sparks, the manuscripts and books used by W. H. Prescott in preparing...
...much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated...
...Ryerson, L. S., in which Mr. Ryerson obtained five touches to his opponent's three, thus winning the bout. The vaulting with two hands followed; the contestants being Messrs. Livermore and Tyng, '76, Wetherbee, '78, and Keene, '79, all of whom vaulted to the height of six feet four inches, when Mr. Keene withdrew, followed by Mr. Wetherbee at six feet six inches. The prize was won by Mr. Livermore, vaulting six feet nine inches...