Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment of Arthur Darby Nook, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion to the Society of Fellows increases the number from seven to eight. The other six members are President Conant, President Lowell, Dean George David Birkhoff '04, of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Perkins Professor of Mathematics; John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Lawrence J. Henderson '98, professor of Biological Chemistry, who is the Chairman; and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History...
Others hold that is the job of the school to teach its students enough on all legal subjects to form a starting basis. They reply that if four and even seven years are not too many in medicine, four are certainly not too many...
...yong Squier," he was a soldier in the large army with which Edward invaded France. Captured and ransomed by the King, he was shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
...speaker was "never to rehearse his own composition," but merely to learn by rote some famous passage and deliver it as best he could. The Lee Wade competition even went so far as to require everybody to learn the same piece, until one long-suffering audience was prostrated by seven or eight canters with Browning's Good News from Ghent...
...Class Day Committee has charge of all the Class Day exercises and consists of seven members. The duties of the Permanent Class Committee are set forth in the Class Constitution, which was printed in the CRIMSON on February 15. They include managing reunions, filling vacancies, and generally acting on behalf of the class. The Committee consists of six elected members and the secretary and treasurer as ex-officio members...