Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...oared race between the class crews was won by '77, time 13: 27 1/4; the single-scull race was easily won by Livingston in 16:02 1/4; the six-oared race between the Academic and Scientific Freshmen was won by the former in 14: 07; the four-oared shell-race between...
...Executive Committee H. U. B. C., together with the captains of the clubs, have voted to consider that first crews are entered for the four-oared race. The six-oared race will be made up of second crews. The fall races will be over the Charles River course...
...officers. It was agreed that the meeting of the class should be called for Wednesday, November 1st; that nominations for the various offices should be made at any time on or before Monday, October 30th, to C. M. Barnes, Matthews 39, chairman of a committee on nominations, consisting of four members, - one each from the different portions of the class. Nominations must be signed by at least one member of the Senior class...
...travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through which he passed, the customs of the people, and any peculiarities which struck him as worth preserving. These notes he afterwards embodied into letters addressed to an English gentleman, and published them in four large volumes...
...those days the College officers consisted of the President, three Professors, four Tutors, and the Librarian; the number of students averaged two hundred and twenty; the library had fifteen thousand volumes, and was then "unquestionably the best in the United States." "Here the leaning is towards the languages, in Yale College towards the arts and sciences," President Dwight says; but he regrets that even here the admission requirements in Latin ("to speak true Latin and write it in verse as well as prose") were being "continually lowered by gradual concessions." The buildings then were "four colleges, a chapel...