Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first place, it seems to some of the officers of the clubs that the present system is not a success, and that no amount of energy on their part can keep it going; the original contract with Blakey provides that each of the four clubs shall contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just...
...their club. It is hoped to make the house and boats attractive enough to induce men who are not able or disposed to train for the races to join for the sake of the pleasure derived from sculling around the river watching the crews, and using the six and four oars when the crews are not using them. For those who wish to train the attractions are greatly increased, the prizes are to be quite valuable, worth possibly between eight or ten dollars apiece, one for each man of the first winning crew. There is a likelihood of our spring...
ARYANA VAEJO. - "Our Aryan Ancestors: their Early Culture, Myths, and Folk Lore." Four Lectures by John Fiske...
...club captains steadily advocates making the fours the principal crews, instead of the sixes. We strongly suspect that his eagerness in this matter springs from the feeling that his club is sure of four good men, but that it is difficult to secure for them two adequate supporters. It is scarcely necessary to give warning against a policy so evidently short-sighted and retrograde...
...most part painful and useless study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon the all-suffering Freshmen, until with Mechanics and four branches of Mathematics their burden has become almost too much for the most enduring. Very many have been conditioned every year in studies which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception...