Word: seven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Herald says that Professor John K. Paine has been to see "Pinafore" seven times...
...clubs, and are no longer recognized as amateurs. W. O'Keefe and J. H. Noonen, both rather fast walkers, are also expelled. Armstrong was the amateur champion of America, and had a mile record of 6.44, if memory serves us, and Mott could also do his mile close to seven minutes. Their loss is a serious one to the amateur athletic interest of the country...
...bowling-alleys were no more. The whole basement had been converted into an enormous billiard-hall, supplied with eight large tables. At each table were four students, and others were looking on. "Speak softly, sir," said my companion, "as this is a recitation in Billiards 5. There are seven electives in billiards. This is the advanced course in fifteen ball pool...
Anyhow, I am bound by my thirteen years' personal experience of the actual and possible dangers, discomforts, and disasters connected with attempts at "mixing things" in intercollegiate boat-race management, to plead as eloquently as I can against the rowing of any such race on the Thames during the seven days which precede June 30, 1879. Without pretending to assert that the rowing of it there at that time would necessarily and inevitably confuse and upset the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race of a few days later, I do insist most vigorously that it would have a strong tendency...
...cups. That their doing so would not necessarily by presumptuous or hopeless will be made evident by the following record. In 1872 the winning Wesleyan Freshmen made better time than four out of the six crews in the University race; in 1873 the winning Yale Freshmen did better than seven of the eleven University crews; in 1875 the winning Cornell Freshmen defeated six out of thirteen University boats, and in 1876 the winning Cornell Freshmen defeated three out of six. In 1864, also, at Worcester, the Harvard Sophomores made thirty-eight seconds better time than the regular Harvard crew...