Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps if a platoon of regulation army top sergeants, weighing seven pud each with their shoes off, were invested with the new ponchos and put at the head of a bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even without the flapping ears and the heaving trunks. They might, given a good boost, bear their elephant-gray ponchos in a clattering charge all the way to Berlin, and end at one elephantine victory...
Yesterday spaces in the Yard for the Class Day Spreads were assigned to seven organizations. Phillips Brooks House was allotted the space south of Phillips Brooks House, Alpha Phi Sigma the space west of the Fogg Art Museum, Chi Delta, back of Hollis; Phi Beta Kappa, north of Stoughton; Phi Kappa Epsilon, south of Matthews; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Wadsworth lawn and Sigma Alpha Mu, back of Holden...
...meeting of the President and Fellows of the College held last Monday, 23 appointments were made, one resignation accepted, and the award of seven prizes made...
...school will be identical with those established at the universities of California, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cornell University. The only requirements to enter one of these seven schools are that the men must be between 21 and 30 years of age, that they must pass physical examinations, and that each man must have received a three-years college education or its equivalent. The course will include the theory of aerial dynamics, lectures relative to aeronautics, the scientific theory of aerial flight, wind pressure, the action of internal combustion engines, and a general knowledge...
...hundred and seven Brown men have left college to enter the military service or agriculture. Of these, 27 went to Plattsburg, 38 are in the Naval Reserve, 25 in the artillery, and 100 men on farms...