Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this, none of the work being in Qualitative Analysis, but all in connection with the lectures; the lecture-room experiments will be repeated by the students. Some change may be made, too, in the relative number of recitations and lectures. One mistake in the Elective Pamphlet should be noticed. Fifteen hours - including one hour in Acoustics - is required for Honors in Music; only fourteen can be found. We learn from Professor Paine, concerning this, that Music 2, counterpoint, three hours a week, ought to be divided into two courses, simple and advanced counterpoint. We then have in all seventeen available...
There may be a difference of opinion as to whether a specialist "ought to complain" if, under the present system, he gets no credit in his specialty because he takes fifteen and not eighteen hours of work; but probably no one will deny that the new system does him far greater justice...
...understand, then," said I, "that anything, from Rabelais to Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...
NOTWITHSTANDING a report in the Advocate that there were "only three entries for the second meeting," the Gymnasium was fairly well filled, and those present were able to see a much better exhibition than the preceding. Altogether there were fifteen - not three - entries; but it was evident that several of those who entered had not given much time to training, and presented themselves merely to fill up. Although this is better than no entries at all, it certainly does not tend to raise the standard of our records, which, after all, is - or rather ought to be - the ambition...
...been converted into an enormous billiard-hall, supplied with eight large tables. At each table were four students, and others were looking on. "Speak softly, sir," said my companion, "as this is a recitation in Billiards 5. There are seven electives in billiards. This is the advanced course in fifteen ball pool...