Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Somebody has been looking over Princeton's list of graduates who have become prominent in public life, and finds that it includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates to the Continental Congress, one President (Madison), two Vice-Presidents and five nominated as candidates, seventeen Cabinet officers, one chief-justice, five associate justices, seventeen foreign ministers, fifty-one Senators and 115 Representatives. besides two speakers of the House...
...seven o'clock, as the train was nearing the Mississippi, Leighton, '88, came aboard and detailed the programme for the stay in St Louis. That very evening there was to be an informal reception at the University Club: next day, the clubs were to take luncheon at the St. Louis Club through the kindness of Davis, '89, then the concert in the evening and, last of all, the Imperial ball. The programme was fully carried...
...placed the bath rooms and the swimming tank, which are all that could be desired. For the purpose of Turkish baths there are five rooms finely decorated and furnished. The swimming tank is 41 feet long by 30 feet wide, and is kept constantly filled to a height of seven feet, with pure water. On the ground floor of the building are situated the offices, etc. The first floor contains the social apartments, which are equal to those of any club in the city. It is the purpose of the club to have its social features as well...
What the students object to in the present religious regulations, is that they have to get up at a quarter of seven every morning in order to be at eight-o'clock prayers and have to attend Divine service at the college church twice each Sunday...
...presented by Captain Willard was a strong one, setting forth in clear and concise terms the arguments for its favorable reception In addition to the elaborate text of the petition itself, there were presented letters from fourteen members of former teams, nine of whom were excaptains. The opinions of seven college presidents were appended to the petition, together with elaborate statistics on the Yale and Harvard scores of past years...