Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate, at least, the opportunities at Harvard for a liberal education by the vicarious methods if I may call it that are most fortunate. After the first year in the Yard the students, distributed among seven Houses, live under ideal conditions for the interchange of different points of view. Of course, no one imagines that the conversation around the dinner table turns every evening on the relative merits of philosophy or economics. Friendships are formed, however, and that is the important point...
Describing the non-political nature of the Student Council, a past Council President said that "the only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall." It makes no attempt to control undergraduate opinion, he said, because, in trying to do so, "it would be both wasting its time and losing its prestige...
Besides these, ninety-five first-year men will receive "Freshman Scholarships" from money appropriated for that purpose. Forty-seven are the recipients of Harvard Club awards from Clubs all over the country...
Despite this apparent division of authority, the real control of Harvard's $2000,000,000 worth of property, its $148,000,000 endowment, and her giant domain stretching from the Atkins Botanical Institution in Soledad, Cuba, to the Boyden Observatory in Bleemfentein, South Africa, lies in the bands of seven...
Although the Overseers ordinarily convene seven times a year to approve (almost as a matter of course) the Corporation's action, much of their collective job of keeping a watchful eye delegated to the Visiting Committees...