Word: seven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clock until five, and at half past four the exercises at the Tree will begin. Spreads and teas will probably occupy the spare hours, and in the evening Memorial Hall will be opened for dancing from eight until eleven. Every Senior is entitled to twenty tickets to the Yard, seven to the Tree, six to Memorial Hall (to admit one gentleman and two ladies), and five to Sanders Theatre. Tickets are now ready, and can be obtained at 10 Weld, every day, from twelve till one P. M., and at 25 Holyoke Street, from two till three...
...average weight of the Yale Eight is 165 3/4 lbs., against an average of 176 1/4 lbs. for our crew. They will have a new coxswain this year, as Aldrich has grown too heavy. There are four men from last year's crew in their boat, while we have seven in ours...
...half-mile run, H. Whateley, Oxford, and L. Knowles, Cambridge, dead heat in 2 min. 3 3/5 sec.; 100-yards, L. Junker, L. A. C., 10 1/5 sec.; quarter-mile, J. Shearman, L. A. C., 52 4/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, S. Palmer, Cambridge, 16 1/5 sec.; seven-mile walk, H. Venn, L. A. C., 52 min. 25 sec., first mile in 6.35; wide jump, E. Baddeley, Cambridge, 22 ft. 8 in.; high jump, G. Tomlinson, 5 ft. 10 1/4 in.; four-mile run, J. Gibb...
...slip of paper, with the number of mistakes each has made. Then the man with fewest mistakes, say six, is given the highest mark, say 98%. This is almost exactly the relation the best man's mistakes and per cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose 1% for each mistake over six. This statement is nearly if not exactly correct, and is as clear as it can be made...
...asked us to write an editorial on the subject. He has brought forward all the arguments used of old against such change, and he insists most vehemently on the point that, to force a man to get up and breakfast between the hours of a quarter past seven and half past eight, is manifestly a return to those barbarous customs which he, for one, has always thought it his duty to oppose. Undoubtedly to one accustomed, as he has always been, to Eastern luxury, there is something particularly barbaric in an early breakfast; but he must remember that we, unlike...