Word: six
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE are six Chinese students in the Phillips Academy at Exeter, and twelve at Andover...
YALE held her Fall Regatta October 2. The first event was a barge race between '80, '81, and '82; '80 won, with '81 second. Another barge race followed between a picked Dunham Six and '83. The Freshmen pulled well and steadily the whole distance, winning easily by five lengths...
...even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain a mastery of the language a long time would be required. A student might spend the four years of his college course entirely upon Chinese, and yet have all his time occupied...
...difficulty, and that, too, without any increase in the running expenses. It is proposed to have two separate hours for each meal, and thus enable each table and each seat to be used twice over, if necessary. The hall will thus accommodate thirteen hundred persons, instead of six hundred and fifty, and so far from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many of the dining-halls of the English universities, and is found to work very successfully...
...third successive year Yale has had the championship wrested from her unexpectedly. In this game her men played well until the critical moment; while Harvard's nine never played steadier than during the long up-hill fight of the first six innings. It is a brilliant ending for those who will play no more on Harvard's side, and may well serve as a model for those who are to take their places the coming year...