Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock. All members of the University including Freshmen are eligible to the team with certain restrictions for the intercollegiate tournament. A feature of the evening will be the presence of a prominent local chess player who will play all comers simultaneously. Cigarettes and refreshments will be served. Seven members of last year's team are back this year...
Harvard's chief weapons in this war against the unfortunate evils of expansion are the early competitions and the Freshman Dormitories. The great number of candidates who respond to the varied calls of teams and managerships is evidence that these instruments are doing good work in assimilating the annual seven hundred...
...second period Andover surprised the Freshmen with brilliant forward passing and gained seven points by a pass over the goal line from Larkin to Hill and a goal by Crane. The last quarter started off well for the Freshmen, who made several long gains, but the ball was lost on a fumble and from that time on the playing was almost entirely in 1920's territory. Andover advanced the ball to the Freshmen's 20-yard line and a goal from the field by Crane broke the tie in Andover's favor...
Already a low undertone of protest and complaint against the seven o'clock bell is being heard from the dwellers in the Yard. Communications and denunciations will soon appear in their annual abundance. The justification of this old custom is to be found in the fact that it is successful in calling forth words of execration and condemnation. The Senior requires something upon which to vent his discontent, and then it distracts his mind from harmful meditation on the probable results of the world war, or the possibilities of more comprehensive knowledge of the fourth dimension. As David Harum says...
...arrangement this year each club will compete in four rounds, after which the eight having the highest general average will be retained for an elimination round from which 4 clubs will be picked to compete the following year. This elimination will obviate the necessity of retaining seven clubs as was done this year because of ties in the general average. In this competition the full second-year membership of each club, usually eight, will argue, while in the third-year rounds two men from each club will speak...