Word: eights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...open regatta will be held June 10, by the Harlem Regatta Association, when the following events will be decided: Eight-oared shells, four-oared shells, pair-oared shells, senior and junior single-scull shells, pair-oar gigs and sixoar gigs...
...University of Pennsylvania Boat Club would like to arrange a match eight-oared race with the Potomacs of Washington, D. C., to be decided...
...Newnham Ladies' College, writes the Cambridge correspondent of the Woman's Journal, last term there were sixty-eight boarders and eight out-students, at Girton there were fifty-six boarders. Lectures are given by college teachers at these colleges, but many lectures given to men of the university are open to and largely attended by women students, notably the courses by Prof. Seeley in history, Dr. Foster in physiology, Mr. Balfour in comparative anatomy, Dr. Vines in botany, and Dr. Humphries in human anatomy. During the last eight years, thirty-six Newnham students have gone in for triposes, seven...
...class in Freshman Physics : What velocity must a locomotive have to pick up a deaf man walking on the track and fling him so high that six cars pass before he comes down? A mother standing at the gate calls to her boy who is exactly sixty-eight feet distant. It takes two minutes and twenty-two seconds for the sound to reach him. - Find from this the velocity with which a woman's voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time; she has to kiss seven persons, say good-by to thirteen others...
...feel hopeful; having lost three of last year's crew our chances are pretty poor, Geo. Rogers, Collins and Fuller having graduated. There are, however, besides the five of last year's crew in training a number of good men from whom it will be possible to select eight men who will certainly work hard to bring the "blue" ahead at New London next summer. The crew row regularly on the Sound and have not lost a day for some time. Storrs went out for the first time last Tuesday, and made his presence felt in the boat. He will...