Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...went to the bat first, but could not do much with Harvard's bowling. Adams was particularly effective, getting seven wickets at a cost of only 32 runs. Good fielding also did much to hold the score down...
...schools have an income that varies from $20,000 to $25,000 a year. The institute is governed by a council which, until recently, consisted solely of members elected annually by affiliated societies established in eleven different cities of the United State. The council has had twenty-two members, seven of whom were Harvard men; but at its last meeting its membership was doubled by the addition of ex-officio members. The intention of this change is to give greater permanence to the membership of the council and thus to secure greater continuity in its work. James Loeb, Harvard...
...been building for the past year and a half. One of the houses contains the great Equatorial telescope, than which there are but five larger ones in this country and six in Europe. The aperture of the object is eighteen inches and the length of the instrument about twenty-seven feet. The observatory has been pronounced to be one of the finest and best equipped in the country...
...prize for the winners of the "Beacon Cup Regatta." In that year a crew of Harvard men rowed against all comers, and in the same year there is a record of the Beacon Cup Regatta, in which the Harvard crew won a three-mile race from seven others. President Eliot rowed in the Harvard boat and the bow oar was Mr. Alexander Agassiz. The complete make-up was: 1, B. W. Crowninshield (stroke); 2, C. Crowninshield; 3, C. W. Eliot; 4, J. H. Ellison; 5, R. B. Gelston; 6, A. Agassiz...
...first seven of the Signet from '99 were elected last evening in the following order...