Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Seventy-nine's race with Wesleyan had to be given up on account of the sickness of a number of the Wesleyan crew...
Columbia.- A University Nine is talked...
...some satisfaction to notice that the Herald has at last acknowledged that the Boston Nine are not altogether correct...
...Henry Adams and Mr. Lodge retired from the editorship last year, the "Review," for the first time in its life, passed out of the hands of Harvard men. Founded in 1815 by a Harvard graduate, every one of its twelve successive editors has been a Harvard man, and nine of these editors have been or are professors in this College. Of the present Faculty, Professor Bowen, Dr. Peabody, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton have followed one another as editors. From these facts it will be seen how closely this magazine has been connected with the College. The change...
...Hasty-Pudding Club, and it was on his motion that the first catalogue of that club was prepared. When a Senator, it was his custom to make additions to the Pudding library. He and eight classmates formed themselves into a secret society, known to themselves as "The Nine," a title which has since been usurped. From the description of college life in one of Sumner's letters, it will be seen that time has not made many changes, save, perhaps, in the last particular quoted...