Word: seventeen
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...intercollegiate cup, presented to the league by E. A. Caswell, will be held one year by the winning team. In order to gain permanent possession of it, however, a team must win it for ten successive years. Of the seventeen tournaments held so far, nine have been won by Harvard, six by Columbia, and one each by Yale and Princeton. As Princeton's victory last year was her first, the chances of any one team gaining permanent possession of the cup are yet far off. Medals will be awarded the winning team from a die provided for the purpose...
...fifty-seven. Of the appointees, sixty-eight are, or have been students in the University, while forty-six, or forty per cent., have never studied at Harvard. Twenty-one, or eighteen per cent., hold a Harvard A.B. or S.B. as their first degree. Six are Harvard undergraduates, and seventeen are seniors in other colleges. The appointments have an aggregate income of $32,650. A number of fellowships and scholarships affected by special provisions have not yet been filled for 1909-10, and hence are not entered in the list...
...Eliot cited the various uses to which ether is put at the present day, and mentioned the discovery of antiseptics seventeen years after that of ether. He then spoke on animal experimentation by vivisection, and gave the resulting benefits to mankind as adequate justification for these experiments. He took as an example the result of the very first discovery, that of substituting vaccination for innoculation in cases of small...
After attending the inaugural ceremonies by which Ernest Fox Nichols was officially installed as president of Dartmouth College, yesterday, President Lowell returned to Cambridge late last evening. Of the seventeen honorary degrees conferred, two came to the delegates from the University. Upon both President Lowell and President Emeritus Eliot was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
Among the seventeen Boston surgeons who have accepted honorary appointment in the newly-organized medical reserve corps of the United States army, there are nine graduates of the University, five of the Medical School, and one who has received an honorary degree. These men will form the nucleus for addition to the regular strength of the army in time of war. The appointees, of whom no service will be required except in time of war, have the rank of lieutenants, and will be given the highest volunteer rank when called into service...