Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider principles and methods for more effective sifting of candidates for admission, Harvard has accepted the most important change in admission requirements since she introduced the "New Plan" more than a decade ago. For one of the recommendations is that boys from approved schools who rank among the highest seventh scholastically in the graduating class may, if recommended by the school, be admitted without examination. . . . At the same time certain restrictive changes will go into effect which will tend to reduce the number of men admitted under the old system with conditions or low grades on their entrance examinations...
...seen exceptional acting. Leaving aside the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre and its demonstration of what gorgeous teamwork a repertory company can display-Jane Cowl as Juliet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, Alice Brady in Zander the Great, Katharine Cornell and Haidee Wright in Will Shakespeare, Helen Menken in Seventh Heaven-on the masculine side, John Barrymore's Hamlet, Rudolph Schildkraut's performance in the God of Vengeance, Glenn Hunter's " Merlon" in the young-man-by-that-name of the Movies-these are only a random few selected from a great number of striking individual successes...
...SEVENTH HEAVEN?The Bowery of Paris reflected in the mirror of Romance, where a " very remarkable fella" (George Gaul) wins a "yellow haired wife" (Helen Menken). A new actor, the World War, takes the same old thrilling part that the Civil War played in the melodramas of 20 years...
Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Brown baseball team retaliated for its earlier defeat at the hands of the University, a ninth inning rally giving the visitors a 7 to 4 decision over the Crimson. The University tied its opponent's early lead in the seventh with three runs and probably would have registered more, had it not been for Trumbower, who at critical points in the game deprived Gordon and Jenkins of apparently sure home runs...
...seventh, three singles and errors by the visitors gave the Crimson its opportunity to even up the score. All hopes of victory were shattered, however, when Brown bunched its hits and crossed the plate for three more runs in the first of the ninth...