Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madison Square Garden in which the Democratic National Convention was held in 1924 no longer exists. The new Madison Square Garden is not near Madison Square but in the block between Sixth and Seventh Aves. and 50th and 51st...
Change Upper Seventh Plan...
...system of admission without examination was decided on at the same meeting, which passed the enrollment limitation. The circular letter sent out by Mr. Henry Pennypacker '99, Chairman of the Committee on Admission, reads, "The application of the rule concerning candidates to be admitted from the first seventh of their class will hereafter be discretionary with the Committee on Admission." The Committee further announces that in 1927 and after that admission without examination will be limited to schools which do not usually prepare their pupils for the College Board examinations. Such schools are specified as high schools in smaller cities...
...second place the application of the one seventh ruling will become discretionary with the Committee on Admission, and, beginning in 1927 the privilege will be taken away from the larger endowed academies and city high schools of the seaboard East...
...Seventh Heaven" wears well, and as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, how much sweeter, well what's in a name anyway...