Word: seventh
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Twenty-two fraternities form an oligarchy among an aristocracy, embracing one seventh of a total University population of approximately 7,000. Around them is now coalescing an incipient campus revolution. After a quarter of a century of laissez-faire administration, John L. Newcomb, president for a quarter of a century, relinquished his chair this week to Colgate Darden, former governor of the state and chancellor of William and Mary. Darden is an outspoken advocate of limiting the fraternities, which currently enjoy free flowing liquor and a similar interpretation of parietal rules. There are no bars in Charlottesville, so that liquor...
...Pikeville, Ky., Crawford Casebolt, a 13-year-old seventh-grader convicted of using a pistol to rob a man of an auto, a watch and $4.84 in cash, was sentenced by Circuit judge R. Monroe Fields "to spend the rest of his natural life at hard labor," the minimum sentence possible under Kentucky's armed robbery...
...look upon the world," said Methodism founder John Wesley, "as my parish." If John Wesley had been in Springfield, Mass, last week, he would have been pleased to see how well his parish was represented. Assembled for the Seventh Ecumenical Methodist Conference were 500-odd delegates from 16 independent Methodist groups on five continents...
...Mexico-born Ralph Kiner, 24, had done for the seventh-place Pittsburgh Pirates what Hank Greenberg was hired-at a reported salary of nearly $100,000-to do. At 36, and in his first season with the Pirates, Hank was pretty much of a flop, even though Pittsburgh's left-field fence had been brought in closer to help him. But Greenberg bunked with young Kiner on road trips, talked while his protégé listened, practiced with him. On Hank's advice, Kiner stood closer to the plate, spread his feet a little more, learned...
...scripts have great difficulty "predicting" that Friday will follow Thursday; small boys expect to be rewarded with refrigerators when they answer questions in history class. Because U.S. institutions are Paar's target, a Paar grammar school administration drums up business with radio commercials ("Children! Have you tried the seventh grade...