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...Fifteen men are competitors for the prize in high jumping in Yale's weekly contests, and eleven men are candidates for the prize in putting the shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/7/1888 | See Source »

...fifteen foot-ball matches between Oxford and Cambridge, Oxford has won six, Cambridge five, and four were drawn games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/2/1888 | See Source »

...life of Christ more real and vivid than is obtained from the usual reading of the New Testament. The benefit derived from a daily glimpse of a pure strong life is not to be doubted; and if a man aims only at self-culture, he could scarcely spend fifteen minutes of each day more profitably than at chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1888 | See Source »

...fifteen-inch equatorial telescope was in charge of Mr. O. C. Wendell, while Mr. W. H. Pickering directed the general photographic work. Professor Pickering had twelve persons assisting in one way or another during the three or four busy hours. The photographic plates obtained were not all developed at once, but a sufficiency of each set to show that the apparatus was in good order. The time signal of the observatory was critically compared on Saturday, and was found to be correct, within one-tenth of a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Total Eclipse at the Observatory. | 2/2/1888 | See Source »

Immediately after the Christmas recess, Captain Hale summoned candidates for the senior crew, and some fifteen men presented themselves. There are no old men among them, and the prospect for a crew is not at present encouraging. The scheme of work of the candidates is the following: At quarter after four the men meet and use the chest-weights for fifteen or twenty minutes. At half-past four they repair to the rowing room, where they are busy until five o'clock. At five they take a fast run of a mile out-of-doors, and this ends their work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Senior Class Crew. | 1/27/1888 | See Source »

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