Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Seven out of the nine men who won points in the dual meet with Yale last spring, and who are available for this year's University team, reported with the rest of the squad yesterday. The others will report in a day or two. K. F. Brill '08, who showed up very promisingly in the hammer-throw early in the winter, has left College...
...publication of The American Nation, -- a monumental work in twenty seven stout octavo volumes, --under the general editorship of Professor Hart, marks the first very serious attempt to apply the principle of the division of labor to a narrative of the annals of the American people. Despite the elaborate scale on which the undertaking was projected, the whole series has been issued from the press within the comparatively short space of less than four years, an unusual achievement for an enterprise of its kind. Upon the general editor has devolved the task of delimiting the scope of the various numbers...
...erection of the latter in 1907. The club was a great success from the first and filled a long felt want. This interest showed itself in the development of good crews and scullers, whose excellence is shown by the fact that in one regatta alone the club won seven events. The University crew drew many of its members from the Weld crews, taking five men from one eight and four men and the coxswain from another. Aside from graded crew and interclass racing, the Weld crews have defeated many college crews, Pennsylvania and Columbia among others...
...time went on, more and more attention was given to permanent positions for students upon graduation. In April, 1897, the Appointments Committee with a permanent chairman was able not only to provide odd jobs for men in the University; but also permanent work for them after graduation. Seven years later, the Appointments Committee was disbanded and the work intrusted to the Appointments Office with H. S. Thomson '99, first Secretary for Appointments. Mr. Thomson extended the system begun by Mr. Bolles and developed by B. S. Hurlbut '87 and R. Cobb '92, present Head Master of Milton Academy, until...
...week's rowing ended yesterday with eleven crews on the river, four from the University squad and seven from the Freshman. The water was rough and choppy, and good feathering was well nigh impossible. For the first time this year the John Harvard was put in commisison, from the bow of which Conch Stevenson was able to watch the rowing of the Freshmen...