Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain J. N. Barbee '28, the only letter man left from last year, played a consistent game throughout. S. C. Burns '30 was the individual high scorer with eight points, closely followed by Captain Cohen and Cotter with seven points each...
This high-handed gentleman, who controls his Parliament by locking its doors or rearranging its calendar whenever criticism is attempted, is on his way to Geneva to present his country's claims in the Lithuanian dispute. This dispute arose seven years ago when without good reason Polish forces marched into Lithuania and seized the capital, Vilna, and occupied a good portion of that country. Since then the inhabitants have been energetically kept in hand and revolutions have been continually fomented against the government which controls what is left of Lithuania...
...Polish nationalists to build a gigantic state stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Of course this could not be accomplished without another war, which even the most sanguinary believe cannot happen for at least ten years. Yet that the Poles have been allowed to retain Vilna for seven years without an investigation by the League or interference by any of the powers shows that all is not well. It has its roots in the same condition that is responsible for anti-Semitic riots in Hungary, Gaelic street-signs in Ireland, and the utterances of the Mayor of Chicago...
...that he and his wife had started in England. Composed of about twenty children who are permitted to run about nude if they desire, the school is run without a thought of teaching them the convention of decency. "We do not take in any children after they are over seven years old, but once they are in, we try to keep them until they are 18 years...
...basis of the award was changed: no school preparing less than seven boys for college was allowed to enter the competition, and no longer was the competing school required to send any of its boys to Harvard. Moreover, the standing of the several schools in the records made by all the graduates in the contest was to be determined not by a given year, but by the achievement of the best seven from each school. The rating of the teams is based upon the highest average obtained in four College Entrance Examinations on subjects chosen by each of the team...