Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refusal of the University of Southern California to pay him $10,000 for seven "conferences": not lectures. Tagore is reliably reported to have declined to lecture under any circumstances and to have spurned an offer of $5,000 for the "conferences...
Whitmore suffered his first defeat of the season yesterday, yielding seven hits, one of them a homer, during his four innings of service. The inexperienced Molloy, who relieved him, showed good form on the mound and promises well for the future. Hensil, Villanova's hurling ace who shut out the Crimson 8 to 0 last year, performed well for the most part and was ably supported by his teammates...
...Villanova aggregation has found the sailing pretty rough so far this spring, losing well over half of its contests; but its lineup has seven veterans including pitcher Hensil who played on the 1928 nine which trounced Harvard by a decisive 8 to 0 score. The left-handed Wildcat hurler let the last year's Crimson outfit down with six hits and fanned nine, facts which tend to show that today's contest may yet be a ball game worth seeing...
...Freshman nine journeys to Andover this afternoon to stack up against the local schoolboys. The yearlings should have no trouble in defeating the Academy, whose record of one win and seven defeats points to a rather weak team...
This year the voting was done on unsigned ballots. Each voter checked on the ballot the men of his class that he favored for election. Seven of the Junior ballots were unvalid compared to one of the 307 cast by the Class...