Word: eights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...popular English school so well known to every reader of "Tom Brown's School Days." "The public school is divided into different 'houses.' The pupil enters a house just as at Oxford or Cambridge he enters a 'college.' He becomes a member of that house. At Rugby there are eight of these different houses, and about the same number at Eton. Each of these houses is under the charge of its own house master. He carries it on as a boarding-house, takes the fees and furnishes the table, and pockets the profits or the loss. It is always...
...will be two Hebrew courses. The instruction in Arabic will now be included in two courses instead of in one as before. Assyrian will be given two new courses in addition to the old one. The Aramaic course will remain as before. By these changes the pamphlet will include eight courses in Semitic languages, making a department that cannot be surpassed by any in this country, and at least equal to any in Europe. The Sanskrit and Zend department will remain as before...
...most notable addition in the History department will be a course by Dr. Emerton on the conflict between Christianity and Paganism in the first eight centuries. There will be an additional half-course in Roman...
...members of the class of '82 of the Boston Latin School are to have a meeting in 51 Grays tonight at eight o'clock...
...second eight of the O. K. Society from '84 is as follows: S. A. Eliot, W. H. Garrison, E. A. Hibbard, R. S. Minturn, W. B. Noble, T. M. Osborne, J. Prentiss and L. E. Sexton...