Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bavaria," says Peter, "the king used to give 100 marks to a family that had seven boys born in a row. Also, the king would be godfather of the seventh boy. My mother had six sons, and when the seventh was coming, they thought it would be a boy, but it turned out to be a girl. So papa said, 'Well mama, I guess we have to try again.'" Unfortunately, the second try resulted in a similar buildup, and a similar let down...
Mikkola's unfortunate squad, which has beaten only Holy Cross in seven starts this season, will find itself against the same top-notch competition that has out-run it all season. Princeton, Dartmouth, Army, and Penn are expected to dominate the race, with Cornell, Navy, Yale, and Columbia all offering top-notch opposition...
...seven finishers in last week's triangular cross-country meet with Yale and Princeton are in New York for the Heptagonal Races this weekend. Coach Jaakko Mikkola and his traveling squad are hopeful of returning from the trip with more to show than another last place...
...card which came out on Tuesday of that week had Harvard favored by seven points. The subscriber could either pick Harvard to win by more than that or Holy Cross to loose by less. In case of a tie, the rackets collected. As it turned out the score was 22-14 and the gamblers missed by just one point. However other upsets such as the Teunessee-North Carolina game and the Purdue-Minnesota game enabled the card issuers to make a handsome profit...
...dealing not with literary productions, but with the crude, unshaped, often hollow, lumps of expression that come out of the undergraduate, or "afflatus," period in a writer's development. With absolute respect for the contributors to the current issue, I'm willing to bet that six out of the seven will soon be ashamed that these fragments were ever set in type. This writing has to be done, if these folks are ever going to be writers, but there is no law which states that it must be published and read...