Word: eights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blustering weather last evening, the announcement that Mr. Matthew Arnold, the celebrated English critic and poet, would lecture in Sanders Theatre was sufficient to attract a large audience. Early in the evening, the audience which included many Cambridge people as well as students began to assemble, and by eight o'clock all the lower part of the house was filled, and a large number were driven to the gallery for seats. In introducing Mr. Arnold, Mr. Hart said there had been a misunderstanding, and that instead of lecturing Mr. Arnold would read several of his poems. Mr. Arnold then read...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in eight equal sections at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be alloed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes, cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...Harvard University foot-ball uniform" says the Clipper, "made by Wright and Ditson, are probably the finest ever manufactured. The jackets are made of extra canvas, double-stitched and close-fitting. In the back is an elastic insertion about eight inches long and diamond-shaped, which enables the players to bend more easily than the ordinary stiff jacket will allow. In the front is a large letter "H" in crimson silk. Instead of metal eyelet protectors, which in a scrimmage often tear the fingers, the holes are worked in silk. The crimson-gray over which the jacket is worn...
...lost our stroke and so many changes were made in the boat that the crew was finally selected only about three weeks before the Columbia race. Yet it has very generally been conceded that in point of style and finish the crew of 1883 was inferior to no eight Harvard has ever had. The experiment certainly seemed a success. This year a new plan has been adopted,-a compromise between the old one of training the whole year and that tried last year of training for only six months. Up to Christmas the candidates for the crew are to meet...
...Quarlerly" was begun in New Haven, the arm of which was to represent and the various American colleges and scientific schools and to this end it had representatives from each of the principal American colleges as well as from some foreign institutions. The "University Quaaterly" however only lived out eight numbers,-its organization was too complicated, though the idea which prompted its being was excellent...