Word: eights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true, as reported on the authority of a Virginia paper, that William and Mary College has closed, Yale is advanced to the second position, in respect to age, among American colleges. William and Mary was chartered by the King and Queen of England in 1692, eight years before Yale was founded, and for a long time was the distinctive college of the South. It graduated four Presidents of the United States, and at one time had among its students Chief Justice Marshall and Gen. Scott. But after the incorporation of Hampden-Sidney and the University of Virginia, its catalogue...
Columbia is organizing a second eight...
...many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches in dimension, each tablet containing one canto. The tablets are covered on both sides, and each side is divided into three columns of forty lines each, so that there are seventy-two columns in all. Of the poem about a third has been recovered, which includes fragments...
...number of speakers at the Yale junior exhibition has been reduced from ten to eight...
...steamer Josephine was blown up in Port Susan Bay, Washington Territory Weduesday; eight persons were killed and six injured...