Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amount of air which he breathed in when lying down as one. When standing, he took in one and one-third times as much. When walking at the rate of four miles an hour, fives times as much. When walking at the rate of six miles an hour, seven times as much. The increase is shown, perhaps, in a more striking way by Parker, estimating the different amounts in cubic inches. The flow of blood through the lungs is much less rapid when one takes little or no exercise; and the carbonic acid will not be removed from the system...
...perfectly abominable. The faculty seem to think that these lectures on professions are of no more interest to the college at large than those weekly lectures on Health which make such a scanty showing in the halls of Sever. Tuesday night every seat was filled by ten minutes past seven, nearly half an hour before the lecture began. After this there was nothing but standing room, and even that did not hold out long. Many students were turned away from the doors. In common justice to the students, these lectures should be given in Sanders Theatre. These two lectures would...
...During my stay in Boston last spring, men engaged in legal practice spoke to me of the great value of the law-teaching at Harvard University. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Father of the Massachusetts Bar, told me that the three-years' course at Harvard was equal to seven years' work in an office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often...
...Eighty-seven is now rowing as nearly as possible the same stroke that the university does, with an easy catch followed by a long, steady sweep of the oar into the body with ever increasing force, so that the hardest pressure on the oar is applied to the very end of the stroke, instead of at the beginning of the stroke as was the case two years...
...Eighty-seven had a strong crew in her freshman year, and four of the members of that crew rowed on the university last year against Yale and Columbia. Although four men were thus taken out of the boat, and one more had to give up rowing on account of sickness, leaving very few old men on the crew, yet they went to work with a will, and, as everyone must remember, defeated eighty-five in a very close and exciting race last spring; the other two classes not being in the race at all owing to accidents, though the result...