Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look back on the year with serious gratitude. The services of worship have been attended beyond our expectations, and we believe that a distinct movement of healthy religious life has been perceptible in the University. Each of us has conducted morning prayers for about seven weeks, and each has preached on four Sunday evenings. The remaining services on Sunday have been led by the following preachers through our invitation...
Professor Dana, of Yale, last summer visited Hawaii, where he spent a week studying the crater of Kilauea. He had examined the volcano forty-seven years ago, and found that it had not changed as much as he had in the intervening years.- N. Y. World...
This large annual business transacted exclusively with about seven hundred members has been due to the fact that, by means of the Society, students have been buying their books, stationary, men's furnishings, fuel sporting and athletic goods and many sundry other necessaries at very near wholesale cost, and that the Society has furnished its members excellent facilities for conducting their business, without having made any use whatever of money tendered to it gratuitously...
...alley. The first floor will contain a large hall or reception room in front, while in the rear, will be four bedrooms and two studies, with the accompanying toilet rooms, bath-rooms and hallways. The second floor will contain six bedrooms and three studies, and the third floor, seven bedrooms and three studies. The architect of the building is H. Edward Ficken of New York city, and the work is being done by the Flint Building and Construction Company of Palmer, Mass...
...word both boats got off very evenly, Yale having a slight advantage. At the quarter Yale was still a little ahead, pulling thirty-seven strokes to the minute, Harvard following with thirty-five. At about this point the race was one of the prettiest ever seen on the river. The men in both eights were pulling beautifully, and the outcome was still decidedly unsettle. Yale passed the mile in 5 m. 20 s., with Harvard three seconds behind. In a short time the boats would reach the eel-grass where Yale hoped to row away from Harvard, as Harvard...