Word: seven
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Whatever my profession in life, the individuals who shall be my patrons, the facts with which I shall deal, will be the people and facts of the present age. What preparation will better fit me to meet the practical demands of to-day than a seven years' study of the politics, literature, and society of ancient foreign and half-civilized nations...
...into an immense use as a consequence of the Chicago fire, and have retained their place in the journalist's dialect ever since. Doubtless the man who invented the expression "Fire-Fiend" thought he had done a good thing in the way of personification, and the first six or seven editorials on the great fire were perhaps strengthened by the use of that bold figure. At any rate, its popularity was insured by the indorsement thus received. The "Phoenix" had also manifested himself to a few hopeful minds at this time, and these two some - what mythical personages forthwith entered...
...seven to send her flying...
...statistics may be of interest: The oldest and youngest man at the time of entering college, in the present Senior class, were respectively twenty-nine and fifteen; in the Junior class, twenty-eight and fourteen; in the Sophomore class, twenty-three and fifteen; and in the Freshman class, twenty-seven and fifteen...
...grave violations of good order, seven students were dismissed from college in the course of the year, and nineteen were suspended for periods varying from two to fifteen months." - Dean's Report...