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	A History of Oxford College Rowing
		The Eights reached a maximum of 9 days during the 1840's before settling down to a regular 8 days, although it was only in 1858 that these were held on consecutive nights with a day's rest on the Sunday at the mid-way point.
		In 1980 it was finally conceded that the demands of squeezing two eights side-by-side through the Gut were beyond the capabilities of most coxes (and the new `fin' rudders) and single-lane Torpids were resumed, run in fixed divisions of 12 boats as in Eights.
		Eights Week, held in 5th Week of Trinity Term, remains the major college rowing event of the year in terms of rowing standards, numbers of participants, and attracting the crowds.
	www.atm.ox.ac.uk /rowing/history.html (4467 words)

	Eights Week
		At Oxford University, Eights Week constitutes the main intercollegiate rowing event of the year, and happens in May. Male and female coxed eights[?] compete in separate divisions for their colleges.
		The rowing events take place on the Isis part of the River Thames in the 5th week of Trinity term.
		The aim is to become "head of the river" and stay in the lead position.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ei/Eights_Week.html (96 words)

	Worcester College Boat Club
		Stuart Ladd was promoted from the Second Eight and Jo Grummitt came into the cox's seat, having returned from her year abroad as Captain of Coxes.
		In the first week of the Easter holidays we debuted her at The Head of the River Race on the Tideway.
		In Eights Week, the First Eight had a very good run with bumps on Merton, St. Peter's and Brasenose on the first three days, all within the first half of the course - the experienced crew and new lightweight boat doing their job nicely.
	wcbc.worc.ox.ac.uk /reports?id=72 (1933 words)

	Your Heading Goes Here
		Annual competition between two eights rowed by students from Oxford and Cambridge held on the River Thames in London from Putney to Mortlake.
		The river at Oxford (and Cambridge) is not wide enough for several eights to row abreast so races are conducted by starting at equidistant points along the river and trying to `bump' the eight in front.
		There are normally only one or two students present at a tutorial, so it is the one time of the week when they have to be on their toes.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~newc1660/OXFORDWEB/DICTIONARY.htm (3730 words)

	SCCRS Newsletter#1, Trinity Term, 2004
		The men's 1st Eight have the advantage of a number of returning University squad rowers and spares so, on paper at least, should be significantly faster than Torpids and the 2nd Eight also benefits from the knock-on effects.
		Eights will be run from 26th-29th May. On Wednesday-Friday racing starts at noon with the last division at 6.45pm, however, as in previous years, racing on the Saturday will be one hour earlier.
		I remember on the Friday of Eights week we were involved in a near collision in the Gut.
	www.atm.ox.ac.uk /rowing/rsarchives/rstt041.html (2080 words)

	quakers: Friendly Eights
		The premise was that people would be grouped into eights and each couple would host a dinner from June to October.
		But I knew that if we had the Friendly Eights dinner, we wouldn't be able to host family dinner, as it was likely to run late and we wouldn't have time to prepare food for Rob's family.
		We have Friendly Eights at my meeting also, but it gets set up and scheduled for the academic year in September, with lists being posted so everybody knows who goes where when.
	community.livejournal.com /quakers/174236.html (810 words)

	TIME.com: Eights Week -- Jul 12, 1943 -- Page 1
		During Eights Week, the college that finished Head of the River the previous year starts first; the others follow in order of their finish the year before.
		Six weeks before the event, the 23 men's colleges picked their eight-man crews with the care bestowed on the selection of a Cabinet.
		When the great week came, the banks of the Isis from Folly Bridge to The Gut (a tricky S bend where crews first appear to the majority of spectators) were dizzy with excitement.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,766849,00.html (764 words)

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	Eights Week - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oriel Women's Second Eight bump Magdalen Women's Second Eight on the third day of Eights Week, 2005
		At Oxford University, Eights Week, a bumps race constitutes the main intercollegiate rowing event of the year, and happens in the fifth week of the summer ('Trinity') term, in May. Men's and women's coxed eights compete in separate divisions for their colleges, some colleges entering as many as five crews for each sex.
		Pembroke College is the only college to have achieved a Double Headship in Eights, having both men's and women's crews at the Head of the River in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eights_Week (476 words)

	Virus Zine.com : Rants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rather bare at the moment, this section is soon to be filled with articles written on everything from politics to life, updated weekly (several times a week when we're creative).
		All but one staffer has jumped in to write a column, updated once a week.
		Eights columns of random ranting on music, personal adventures, the printed word and the world at large.
	www.viruszine.com /rants (91 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But his logical mind, with its odd turns and twists, tended to see absurdity in the common misuse of words that happens every day, and he loved to lead one through the most complicated mazes of reasoning to the conclusion that one had meant exactly the opposite of what one had just said.
		He regarded undergraduates as nothing but a necessary evil in University life, and such social occasions as Eights' Week were abhorrent to him.
		In Eights' Week 1893 he wrote inviting me to tea in his rooms as usual, adding, 'But are you sure you wouldn't rather go to the Eights.
	members.fortunecity.com /transres/potw/SCIENCE.TXT (1542 words)

	Eights Week, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eights Week is the main annual rowing event at Oxford University.
		Despite its name, the event is actually four days long, held on Wednesday to Saturday of 5th week of Trinity Term during May.
		Eights Week photographs from Linacre College including Men's 3rd Division and Linacre College Men's 1st Eight in 1995.
	archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk /archive/other/rowing/oxford/eights.html (81 words)

	S.H.A.I.D Tree Animal Shelter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		· Animals will not be adopted before eights week of age, and/or are fully weaned when separated from their mother.
		The impoundment period may be included in these two weeks.
		Owned animals surrendered to the Shelter, vaccinated and personality assessed, may be adopted after one week.
	www.shaid.org /adoption.htm (260 words)

	Letter from America
		I have coached many crews in bumps, I have rowed in bumps (won my blade in Eights Week 1995), and I have even coxed in bumps (Torpids 1993: now there was a story never meant to happen — and after that experience I staunchly refused to ever do it again under any circumstances).
		That means I kept the rate low until about a week before the regatta, did not work on starts until a day or two before, and did not necessarily practice in set line-ups.
		A much more useful thing to train for at that time of year is the Eights Head (actually, there are two main ones - one for women followed a week later by one for men — and separate ones for schools and for vets, although schools and vets are not excluded from the main two).
	www.widomaker.com /~ehrlich/letter/mar00.html (2792 words)

	Athletics - Franklin Pierce College
		The men's varsity eight during a mid-week training session on Pearly Pond last week.
		Franklin Pierce’s women’s varsity eight placed seventh in the women’s open division (fourth among collegiate crews), completing the four-mile course with a time of 17:42.454.
		Franklin Pierce’s men’s varsity eight turned in a ninth-place finish in the men’s open division (seventh among collegiate crews), completing the four miles in 16:15.421.
	www.fpc.edu /pages/Athletics/Rowing/ROWTEX100206.htm (177 words)

	University College Oxford : Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The main focus will be on the JCR's art collection; we hope to raise awareness of it through Arts Week and correlatively to raise awareness of the arts in Univ, past, present and future.
		Applications must be made in writing at least two weeks prior to the ceremony date, so do please plan well ahead.
		To mark the end of Eights' Week, the University College Boat Club will be holding its annual Eights' Week Dinner in College.
	www.univ.ox.ac.uk /oldmembers/events/2006-05.html (452 words)

	www.UConnHuskies.com Womens Rowing
		Many of the crews in this event, including Villanova and URI, did not have a boat competing in the Championship Eight event, which means that this was their top eight.
		This was the first race for most of the novice rowers, and it was a good practice for next weekend's Yale Invitational where UConn will have three novice eights competing with very competitive novice crews.
		I can look at those results, and assume that had I boated a first boat and second boat instead of mixed eights we would’ve dropped at least thirty to forty seconds off our time, and that would have put us in the top five.
	www.uconnhuskies.com /AllStories/WRowing/2003/10/26/20031026.html (441 words)

	[No title]
		Assuming that the same number of personnel are available each day and assuming absences for any of the various reasons other than days oft as listed above are the same, the following equation reveals the increased staffing per shift of the five/eights schedule.
		If there are 40 officers on a shift on a four/tens schedule, approximately 23 officers are available any given day for work (i.e., 40 officers per shift times four (4) work days per week, divided by seven (7) days per week equals 22.857, rounded to 23 officers).
		Second, administratively APD would be required to rebid and reassign shifts, which in practice requires a minimum of two weeks, plus time to allow employees to make their personal plans.
	www.alaska.net /~apdea/documentation/clmdsvgs/Doc5-part1.txt (1412 words)

	Theology 1120 Blog » Blog Archive » Late but still a letter
		Then I went to the blogg of the next week and that one was a little more to my liking, so I did that one.
		This week’s blogg is addressing the same thing that all the bloggs have been about my little old project on the problem I came up with to solve.
		This week I have been assigned to report on my project to a religious figure, and I chose you.
	cat.xula.edu /blogs/theology1120/2005/04/03/late-but-still-a-letter (1439 words)

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	WCBC Website
		It was not until 1886 that Wadham hired a barge, from which to boat across the year, and then to watch Torpids and Eights, and one was not built until 1897.
		Overall, three members of the Eight, and two of the Torpid went to war, and the College Gazette of 1900 reported that though this was a worthy sacrifice, it "seriously interfered with college rowing."
		When Eights came around, they started third on the river, and proceeded to bump first St Hugh's, and then LMH to go Head of the River in their first year of competition, a position they maintained with row-overs for the next two nights.
	wcbc.wadham.ox.ac.uk /~wcbc/history (666 words)

	Association Croquet - Selection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The latest news from this year's eights week may be found in the Championships part of the news section.
		For a long time there were just two eights: The President's Cup (donated by the President) and the Surrey Cup.
		The selection committee then asked for an event, the selectors' weekend, for those who could not spare the time for the Eights, or who were on the verge of selection.
	www.croquet.org.uk /association/selection.html (228 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		At Oxford during the rowing “Eights Week” that took place every June, I used to listen in astonishment as the male students chanted:
		Then there were the “panty-raiders” at Eight’s Week, the male students who would steal women’s underwear and hoist them up the boat house flag pole.
		It is time for the Western world to accept the sad truth that universities are becoming bastions of female-hating lechers who spend four years trying to bed as many women as possible, while making the word “bitch” one of the most used in their vocabularies.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/190/story_19032_1.html (664 words)

	Oxford rowing
		the University are Torpids, held on Wednesday to Saturday of 6th week of
		Eights Week (actually four days), held on Wednesday to Saturday of 5th week of
		Various rowing terms at Oxford (and elsewhere): boater, the Boat Race, bump, bump supper, eight, Eights Week, Head of the River, hearty, Isis, over-bump and Torpids.
	archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk /other/rowing/oxford.html (236 words)

	Letters To The Editor
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		To compound the "Alice in Wonderland" effect, we bring in a nobody from nowhere to look at the situation and declare that the boss cannot change the employees' schedule, at least not without the approval of an association of dubious merit.
		Then she proclaims the poor employees who had to work five eight-hour shifts a week must be paid a sum greater than many individuals' annual income.
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	magdalen > news >head of the river - eights week 2004
		head of the river - eights week 2004
		The Women’s first boat made 2 bumps (Lincoln and Hertford) during the week and the Men’s second boat made 3 bumps (Lincoln II, Exeter II and Christ Church II).
		The Women’s second and third boats and the Men’s third boat had a week that varied, as the late John Arlot might have described it, between ‘Fluctuating Fortune’ and ‘Unmitigated Disaster’!
	www.magd.ox.ac.uk /news/2004-05-01_eightsweek.shtml (416 words)

	Photo Gallery
		Notice the signs of an old photo: the racing kit is blue and the crew is still using macon blades.
		(A "Schools" Eight is basically an Old Boys crew thrown together as a scratch entry in Oxford's Eights Week.
		Top-seeded Princeton (wearing white), which had beaten us soundly by one length only two weeks before, is in second place.
	www.widomaker.com /~ehrlich/photos.html (864 words)

	Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The best time to see these flags are during Eights Week, in 5th Week of Trinity term in late May and during Torpids in Hilary term, in February.
		The majority of the college boat houses are located on the Thames in Christ Church Meadow and this is where and when you can see the most colourful display of flags in Oxford, as each boat houses flies at least one flag during Eights Week and Torpids.
		However, the greatest concentration in a small area is during Torpids and Eights Week.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-e-oxf.html (2111 words)

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