Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Education's special report on Libraries, we find that our Library has doubled within the last twenty years. Among the many prominent contributors of books was Charles Sumner, who during his lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight volumes of manuscripts used...
...officers of the clubs that the present system is not a success, and that no amount of energy on their part can keep it going; the original contract with Blakey provides that each of the four clubs shall contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just before the races; nor have the prizes offered...
...country grows older, the young men rise into prominence less quickly. Time was when a boy graduated from college at fifteen or sixteen, and had his professional education or a good start in business before he had attained his majority. As college after college springs up, and higher education becomes more general, the number of graduates of the older colleges who become prominent men is proportionally decreased...
...telegraph company have so far reduced their rates, that the tariff to Boston for ten words is but fifteen cents...
...ABOUT fifteen men are working in the gymnasium for positions on the Nine, and in nothing is the insufficiency of the building more evident than in the lack of accommodations for base-ball players. Our men pass ball to some extent, take general exercise, and three times a week the pitcher practises pitching; but they can get no practice at all in batting during about five months. At Yale a certain part of the gymnasium is shut off from the rest of the building by a wire screen, and there the candidates for their Nine can take their places...