Word: sixteenth
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There have been several slight changes in the plans for fall rowing. The race for the graded crews of the two boat clubs will be held on Thursday, November sixteenth, instead of on the seventeenth, as previously arranged. This change was made to enable the men to attend the dinner to last year's crew, which will be held on the evening of the seventeenth. Instead of the two first crews having a separate race, it is probable that all four graded crews will race together. The distance of the Freshman race, which will be rowed on November eleventh...
...club crews are showing considerable improvement, except the second Newell which has been kept back by frequent changes in the make-up. Now that the order of the crew has been finally decided upon, there ought to be a change for the better. The race on the sixteenth promises to be very close between the two first crews, and the second eights are also very evenly matched. Most of the Freshmen who rowed in last year's interscholastic series are now at the Weld, but there is an abundance of good material at the other club, so that the Freshman...
...eleventh and Averill won again, 5-6. Averill won the twelfth, 3-4, driving within two yards of the cup. The thirteenth hole was halved in six. By a perfect four, Averill won the fourteenth, and was then two up. The fifteenth hole was halved in five, and the sixteenth in six. Averill won the seventeenth, 5-6, as Pyne made a poor shot from the woods for his third. The players halved the honor hole in a far three leaving Averill three up on the morning play...
...exception of Henderson's and Wadsworth's, who beat their men 6 and 3 up respectively. Tiffany Richardson and John Stuart played one of the closest and most exciting of the day's matches. At the end of the first round Richardson was 3 up, but at the sixteenth hole Stuart caught him and, as the last two holes were halved, they were all even on the match...
With its twenty-two hundred volumes, the French Library is also very complete. These include the literary history of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the history of fiction, of poetry and of the drama; a collection of French drama; the more important dictionaries and the works of the prominent French writers. For French history, there are the works of Michelet, Martin and Godefrey; for reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre...