Word: seven
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President Eliot assigns seven particular causes for the failure of municipal government in the United States. In the first place, "the original structure of the city government was ill suited to the work to be done; and municipal work has so changed since the American city government was constructed that a form of government, originally founded on a false analogy, has become less and less adapted to present functions." "Secondly," says President Eliot, "city business being now much more elaborate, extensive, and complicated than it was originally, inexperienced, frequently changing executive bodies, such as subcommittees of city legislative bodies, have...
McCall played second base for Team B and accepted ten chances without an error. Leonard made seven good assists. Of the new men Lanigan made a good catch in the outfield of Haydock's long fly, and Haydock at third base for Team B made a very clever stop and throw of Leonard's swift grounder. Of the catchers Jordan made two excellent throws to second base...
...Seven to be elected, of whom at least three shall be graduates--W. C. Lane '81, Professor J. H. Gardiner '85, Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, W. R. Castle '00, Professor C. H. Haskins, Professor W. A. Neilson, J. T. Addison '09, G. H. Edgell '09, H. Gray '09, W. G. Roelker '09, F. Schenck '09, E. N. Bennett '10, G. W. Martin '10, G. K. Munroe '10, W. Oveson...
Entires have been made from seven of the eight universities which form the intercollegiate gymnastic association--Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, New York University and Haverford. The faculty of Rutgers College have forbidden any of its athletes to compete...
...University baseball squad, and resulted in a victory of 13 to 7 for Team A, on which were most of the members of last year's University team. Several batteries were tried from the second string men, and worked fairly successfully, although there was considerable wildness at times, and seven bases on balls were given in all. Only the fielding candidates took part in the batting, which was by far the most creditable performance of the day. Of last year's team, Briggs, Simons, and Dana each secured two hits. Two hits apiece were also made by Keefe, Haydock, Paine...