Word: fifteene
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...dynamos are also considerably modified, thought the differences are not evident to the untrained eye, as in the case of the lamps. The inventor claims for these dynamos a capacity of fifteen or more lamps per horse power against eight or ten by all other systems. But the great interest to the public at large, and to Harvard students in particular, lies in the fact that these new machines can be constructed so cheaply as to be no more expensive than gas, so that there is no reason why we should not all have the electric lights in our rooms...
There is in California a large tree named "Harvard." An admirer of Yale seeing this thought Yale should be represented, and a tree fifteen feet in diameter and two hundred and eighty feet high was named "Yale" at her request...
There are fifteen candidates for the Yale sophomore crew...
...students of Maine University, which was founded fifteen years ago mainly through the influence of three clergymen, now enjoy optional prayers. We believe Harvard was founded by a clergyman 250 years...
Founded in 1837, seven years after the close of the War for Independence, it began its career with a few professors and barely 100 students. For a few years it occupied a modest-looking house of some fifteen rooms, in the old quarter of the town. But soon the University received a vigorous impulse to greater activity; students began to flock to Athens to study under the excellent German professors whom the King had imported, and wealthy Greeks at home and abroad began making endowments upon the institution. By 1848 most of the German professors had given place to Greeks...