Word: eights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman crew is required to meet in front of Holyoke every morning at eight o'clock, in order to ensure early rising...
...directors of the Columbia College Boat Club have planned an extremely active campaign for 1883, their programme including four-oared races for the Childs cup, at Philadelphia, and the inter-collegiate championship at Lake George; also eight-oared matches with Harvard at Boston and New London, as well as competition in the regattas of the Harlem, Passaic River and National Associations. To provide the funds to carry out this programme, the club gave athletic meetings at Madison square on Friday and Saturday evenings. The entries numbered 234, including Myers, Derickson and a number of athletes from Yale, Princeton...
VAULTING.The first event on the programme was the two-hand vault, for which there were eight entries: T. C. Bachelder, '83; A. C. Denniston, '83; G. B. Morison,'83; W. Soren, '83; C. H. Atkinson, '85; M. J. Stone, '85; S. Cary, '86; S. H. Fessenden...
Prof. George T. Ladd of Yale College will give on consecutive days a course of eight lectures on "The Inspiration of the Scriptures," in the Upper Lecture Room of Divinity Hall, beginning March 21st...
...Thursday resulted about as the betting men had expected earlier in the year. Several months ago the odds were largely in favor of Oxford, as the crew seemed to be definitely settled upon, while the Cambridge boat was occupied by different men almost every week. Even after the eight had been determined upon by Cambridge, their positions were not fixed until a short time ago. But Cambridge improved rapidly in form after the crew was settled in their positions, and this fact, added to their superior weight, gave their backers considerable encouragement. The Oxford crew found difficulty in getting...