Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club entertaining Mr. Prentiss Cummings, of the Boston Chess Club. An invitation had been extended to all chess players in the University to be present and unite with the members in trying their strength in simultaneous games against Mr. Cummings. Thirteen men took tables, and shortly after half past seven, play began and continued until nearly midnight. The tables were arranged in two parallel rows, while Mr. Cummings walked up and down between them, making his moves at first with little or no hesitation, but, as the evening wore on, taking more time for consideration. B. A. Gould...
This is the third time the Chess and Whist Club has contended with Mr. Cummings. The first time they won two games out of seven; the second, one game out of eight, and last night the score at the close of the meeting stood two games won, nine lost, and two unfinished...
...Harvard. We would take this opportunity of again congratulating the college upon being the holder of the cup which represents so many victories for Harvard in general athletic excellence. We would, also, in behalf of the University, again thank the men, both graduate and undergraduate, who, in the past seven years, have brought it about that Harvard should be the first holder of the intercollegiate...
Forty-one books have been published by Yale professors within the last seven years.- Yale News...
...half-past seven last evening, Upper Boylston Hall was well filled by an audience which had gathered to hear Mr. S. R. Keohler's lecture on German Engraving of the Sixteenth Century. This was the fourth in the course of lectures now being given under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Keohler, who is connected with the Boston Art Museum, was introduced by Professor Francke...