Word: seven
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tommy Atkins as made famous through Captain Bairns-father's cartoons. Therefore its chief characteristic naturally is humor, which, blended with some of the softer feelings which find such remarkable expression in the private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award of the V. C. But all this is of little moment, except to hold...
...list of 63 American "Aces", aviators who have downed five or more enemy aeroplanes, recently published by the War Department, seven are University men. The ranking man of Harvard's "Aces" is Lieutenant D. E. Putnam '20, of Newton, who, before his credit. Captains Hamilton Coolidge '19, of Boston, who was killed in action, and Douglas Campbell '17, of Mt. Hamilton, Cal., have respectively eight and six victories credited to them...
...Wright '19, of Cambridge, Sumner Sewall '20, of Bath, Me., and James Knowles '18, of Cambridge, have downed nine, six, and five German planes, respectively. Lieutenant L. A. Hamilton, of Pittsfield, who was a first-year student in the School of Business Administration in 1917, had accounted for seven enemy flyers before his death in action. In a list of citations issued by the War Department last week Lieutenant Hamilton was awarded posthumously the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action...
...only seven men reported at the meeting of candidates for the Freshman swimming team yesterday, another meeting will be held today at 1 o'clock in the H. A. A. No definite arrangements for the Freshman team have as yet, been made, but if enough interest is shown, the use of the Boston Y. M. C. A. tank can probably be secured, and a schedule arranged. Candidates for the University swimming team will be called out in a few days...
Today the University seven will meet the Boston Hockey Club in the first practice scrimmage of the year on the Charlesbank rink at 2.30,--weather permitting. The Boston Hockey Club team has not played together long but it has some good men from last year's more prominent Boston sevens. The result of the contest is in doubt, but the University seven should win if it can take advantage of its opponents lack of team-play...