Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FOUR members of the Annex have entered for the four-year course, and eighteen take special courses...
SINCE last spring, a new sprinter has come before the public, and threatens to be a very formidable man when he attains his full development. J. B. Value is only eighteen years of age, and has beaten such men as H. H. Lee, R. L. La Montague, J. S. Voorhees, and T. Maloy. He has a record of 15 seconds for 150 yards...
...will be remembered that last May, '81 beat '80 by about eighteen seconds; but changes have been made in the latter crew, whereby it is much strengthened, and its chances of success are very good. The addition of Trimble, as stroke, is naturally the most important feature; his rowing seems to have lost none of its gracefulness in this new position; while Brigham, at No. 6, brings the experience of several University races. Of the other changes not so much need be said, save that, in the main, the crew is heavier than the old one, and is rowing fairly...
...along the sides, and nine improved lamps hang from the ceiling, while as many nickel-plated, portable lamps are distributed - throughout the car. If necessity requires, movable slides in the ceiling can be opened, giving plenty of air to each and every occupant of the car." When the eighteen nickel-plated lamps are all going at once, the top of the car must present the appearance of being upholstered with buttons when the unhappy artists stretch their heads out of their respective panels...
There may be a difference of opinion as to whether a specialist "ought to complain" if, under the present system, he gets no credit in his specialty because he takes fifteen and not eighteen hours of work; but probably no one will deny that the new system does him far greater justice...