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...lead over Harvard at the Arena three weeks ago, it was a common sight for three men to be playing in the Eli defense line. As the game wore on the Yale outfit left the attack more and more to individual sallies, but this same policy resulted in a zero score against the Orange and Black...
Midnight tonight will be the zero bour for the Advocate "Dry" competition. Since the announcement of February 8, the number of entries has practically doubled...
...unquestionably one of the greatest scientists of all time. The Mayas set the beginning of the world in 3373 B. C., counting back from their fixed date seven cycles of 144,000 days each. The perfection of the Mayan calendar required the invention of a symbol for zero, figures for whole numbers and place-value notation, by which the position of a figure determines its value on a modified decimal multiple system with a base of 20. Such a system; was unknown to the Greeks and Romans and was not used in Western Europe until introduced by the Arabs...
With the price of bread running into billions a loaf the German people have had to get used to counting in thousands of billions. This, according to some German physicians, brought on a new nervous disease known as "zero stroke," or "cipher stroke," which may, however, be classed with neuritis as cipheritis...
...great majority of cases, the student is allowed to make up his work at a later date, or is merely not graded on the particular test which he missed. There have been instances, however where the instructor has not permitted any make-up or postponement and has given a zero grade on the uncompromising theory that the student should have been present. In the case of men excused by the office for reasons other than that of necessity, this point of view is not unreasonable; but it seems unjust to penalize a man who has been absent because of conditions...