Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose prowess the Crimson football destinies now depend, 36 went to private prep schools, eight to high schools, and one is a transfer student from another university. Milton leads the van with a total of eleven representatives, Exeter is second with seven, Groton third with three, while Andover and Worcester Academy each supplies two. Taft, St. Paul's, St. Mark's Noble and Greenough, Loomis, Berkshire, Chestnut Hill Academy, New Prop, Roxbury, St. George's and Middlesex have one apiece...
...Columbia freshman had to know Greek grammar and composition; four books of the Anabasis; three of the Iliad; Latin grammar and composition; seven books of Caesar's Commentaries; six books of the Aeneid and six orations of Cicero. In history, English, geography and mathematics the tests were equally severe. "Acute paralysis" would afflict modern youths faced with such tests, in Dr. Butler's opinion. But the same condition would probably have afflicted the youth of 1879 if there had not been unbroken centuries of the so-called "humanities" drilled into their ancestors. It is another instance of adaptability...
...present one-for-seven quota is to remain in force until Oct. 1, 1930 and, if agreement has not then been reached on the new levy, will be extended for another year...
Last March the U. S. cinema interests in France, well knowing that Cineman Sapene had all but persuaded the French Government to tighten the one-for-seven quota to a struggling one-for-four, retaliated by refusing to release any new films in France until this threat was removed. As a result hundreds of French exhibitors have been losing money all summer, since their patrons would not come in paying numbers to see U. S. films left over from last winter or the distinctly inferior products of the French Cinema Trust. Last week's truce was no sooner signed than...
...large room in a modest hotel on a Manhattan side street last week met a number of women and seven men. They sat at card-tables in groups of four. Of the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This...