Word: seven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lodgings, and was realizing it as I went down to dinner with my cousin. But we were no sooner seated than I observed that although this lady was on my right hand, my friend's oldest boy, to my misfortune, was on my left. The boy is now about seven years old, and possesses many of his father's good qualities, but he has inherited from his mother an indiscreet zeal for chatting and propounding questions which, however becoming in the more mature and attractive, is out of place in the young and the uninformed. The humorous stories in Punch...
...average weight of the Freshman nine," says the Northwestern University (Illinois) Vidette, "is one hundred and ninety pounds." "Two of the members of the Woman's College" at the same university "sing bass". "One Junior in the medical department is nearly seven feet high." Either the imagination of the editors, or the physical development of the students, has attained a very remarkable growth...
FOOT-BALL.ON March 2, at Glascow, Scotland, the Annual International match between England and Scotland was kicked, Scotland winning by seven goals...
WHETHER the question is looked at from a religious or from a utilitarian standpoint, the conclusion reached is always the same, namely, that it is best that one day in seven be given up to rest. If by opening the Library on Sunday the student is encouraged to distribute his work over seven days instead of six, then the change is not a beneficial, but an injurious...
...take postgraduate courses, do they not? There is young X., who did not graduate till he was twenty-three, and then spent a year or so in travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course, and that he intended to study...