Word: six
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...report that a daily newspaper, to be called the Harvard Echo, will soon be started, is not wholly without foundation. Six Sophomores intend, if they can get enough advertisements to cover all expenses, to establish a daily paper. The paper, however, is not to be a money-making advertising medium, but merely a literary enterprise...
...Venus and red-lipped Mars."SOME queer subjects are worked into the editorials of college papers. The Princetonian has one on a circus that is coming their way. The College Argus turns itself into a Republican "organ" for the occasion, and grinds out six columns of wrath and words on the town elections...
...instead of on the 6th or 7th of February, forces us to do one of these two things. Either reviewing must be done before we go home, and left to lie fallow in the holidays, or we must attempt to go over about four months' work, in five or six subjects, in two weeks. The only reason given for the change is that it makes the college year more symmetrical by putting the Semi-annuals into the first half-year. It seems to us that an injustice is done by this shortening of the time when review work is possible...
...first event was for the one-mile walk, in which, out of six men entered, only two appeared at the scratch. These were Messrs. F. C. Huidekoper, '80, and E. E. Wentworth, '82. For about half a mile they kept along within three feet of each other; but, by the end of the third lap, Wentworth worked ahead, and won by ten yards, in 8 m. 36 s. Huidekoper's time...
...hundred and twenty yards hurdle-race, Messrs. J. L. Lamson, '80, and A. C. Denniston, '83, contested. This was the prettiest exhibition of the day, Denniston barely winning by six inches...