eight o'clock
She gave in full the list of the seventeen girls who had been honored with scholarships , laboriously writing out their full names , with `` Miss '' attached to each , and the name of the town and the State in its unabbreviated length . And still it only mounted up to ten pages , and it took eighteen of Patty 's writing to make a column . She strolled down to examine the bulletin-board again , and discovered a new notice which she had overlooked before : Friday , January 17 . Professor James Harkner Wallis of the Lick Observatory will lecture in the auditorium , at eight o'clock , upon `` Theories of the Sidereal System . '' Patty regarded the notice without emotion . It did not look capable of expansion , and she did not feel the remotest interest in the sidereal system . The brief account of the lecturer , however , which was appended to the notice , stated that Professor Wallis was one of the best known of living astronomers , and that he had conducted important original investigations .