Word: eighth
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...Meaning of civil service reform-(a) Not necessarily reappointment of same officials, but election of capable and efficient men; (b) the prevent civil service law does not present removals for partisan reasons, and applies only to one-eighth of the offices: Annual Report of U. S. Civil Service Commission, 1884, p. 26; 1885, p. 10; U. S. Statutes at large...
...home team and the fielding of Duryea at second base for Williams were the noticeable features of the game. Brown, the left fielder of the Williams team, made a beautiful running catch, which elicited prolonged applause from the spectators. The game was called at the end of the eighth inning, because the Williams men wished to take an early train to Williamstown. The following is the score...
...eighth, Howland went out, W. Price to Dana; Boyden knocked an easy one to Wagenhurst, and Bates ffied out to Durell. L. Price and Dana opened the eighth by striking out. King, with two men out, made a hit, but was left at first by W. Price's easy fly to Willard...
Professor G. L. Goodale will deliver the eighth of his course of lectures before the Lowell Institute this evening. The subject will be,- "The principal forest-products other than the woods...
Today is the one hundred and fifty eighth anniversary of the birth of George Washington-Father of his Country. All through the land there will be a holiday today, instituted by the legislature of the United States. It is right and fitting that this should be so. And yet we students of Harvard University, who are being educated here right beside the very tree under which Washington first took command of the armies fighting for "Liberty or Death," are not allowed a holiday on the anniversary of his birth. Was it not within a few miles of this town that...