Word: seven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PADDOCK, Bishop of the Diocese, will make his regular visitation to the S. Paul's Society next Monday evening, at seven o'clock...
...LEVY'S lecture before the French Club next Monday will begin at half past seven...
...history and its various changes during the centuries of its existence are matters of much interest to all chess-players; while even more than "seven cities" have claimed the honor of its invention. The source of chess is, however, generally traced back to the old Hindu game, Chaturanga...
Then, too, themes and forensics are very good things, but, as they are marked at present, their imposition is simply a bore, with few good results. Three hundred marks are given for six themes on a scale of seven thousand five hundred; so that a falling off of twenty-five per cent in the excellence of all one's themes would reduce one's general average only one per cent. It is scarcely to be expected that a student should devote fifteen hours to writing and rewriting a theme, when twelve hours' less application would make a difference...
...indignant supporters of down-trodden woman will not find, from the statistics presented here, many arguments to support their cause. There are sixty-seven colleges mentioned where women are taught together with men, and twenty-eight more where they alone are admitted. The fact that these institutions do not have more students shows that it is not necessary to open any more at present. Vassar, of course, leads the list of Colleges only for women, and she has but four hundred and eleven students...