Word: eight
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...unanswerable. They are the same arguments which some of us "old boys" of Yale have taken pains to impress upon several successive generations of new-comers, until at last their further reiteration seems unnecessary. Ever since 1875, when Harvard's representatives consented to the establishment of an annual eight-oared Harvard-Yale race, the unvarying custom of the Yale Boat Club has been to concentrate all its resources on that race; and this policy has now hardened into a fixed tradition. Hence, whatever talk may be raised to the contrary by a minority of "fresh" and shortsighted enthusiasts, the experienced...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. This week and next, the Kiralfy Brothers' "Enchantment," with its gorgeous theatrical effects, will be given. January 3, Salvini for two weeks (eight performances). First week, "Othello," Monday and Saturday; "Hamlet," Wednesday; "La Morte Civile," Friday. "French Flats" on off nights...
...hall of German eight...
...says that Harvard College was founded for men, and that students, accordingly, should not be put to inconvenience by outsiders. The mere question of convenience can easily be settled, it would seem, by transferring the course to Sever, or to some room where there are tables for the eight men who regularly elect the course, to write at. But regarding the tendency towards co-education, which the writer traces from allowing women to go to the evening readings, and permitting them to attend these lectures, we think that he overestimates the concessions made by the College. Is it not more...
...Columbia College it was decided to challenge the Harvard Freshmen to an eight-oared race...