Word: eights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first Eight of the Phi Beta Kappa from the class of '90 are P. S. Abbott, R. D. Brown, L. H. Dow, N. Hapgood, A. W. Hodgman, M. W. Mather, H. T. Perry, G. P. Wardner...
...favor. Yale formed a V, and Gill ran ten yards before he was downed. McBride punted. After Harvard's second down with a gain of four yards Trafford punted. McBridge at once returned the kick. Stickney made a good rush of fifteen yards. Upton rushed without gaining. Lee made eight yards. A mistake in the signals forced Harvard to a second down, and then B. Trafford attempted to kick, but was stopped, losing fifteen yards. On Harvard's third down the ball was given to Yale for off-side play. On Yale's second down Cranston broke through and tackled...
Cornell gave three hundred and fifty-eight scholarships last year...
...This was the turning point in the game. Saxe kicked the ball and Princeton soon had it on the twenty yard line. On the third down it was given to Ames who kicked a pretty goal from the field. Time, 18 minutes, score 17-15 for Princeton Lee made eight yards but on the third down Trafford was forced to kick. Cowan got the ball and ran until tackled by Saxe. A moment later Ames, beautifully guarded by the rush line, managed to get around Cumnock's end, and running twenty yards, scored. Goal, score 23-15. Lee started...
...court epics are of a different nature, being similar to the short English verse of seven or eight feet. Of this class the principal writers are Hartmann, Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram Eschenbach. Hartmann, the author of "Erick," a poem of several thousand lines, was a writer of great poetic genius, as was Got fried, who, although unable to read or write, has left a poem of 1900 lines. But after the death of these three men there was a great decline in literature...