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...evening meeting was public, and was held in Appleton Chapel, being called at about quarter past seven. Fifteen minutes was given to a song service, and then followed addresses by Mr. H. M. Moore, and Mr. Clifford, of London. Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., was to speak, but was unable to be present. A letter, however, from Dr. McKenzie was read at the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Y. M. C. A. | 2/23/1885 | See Source »

...glancing at the table that the athletic representatives would number scarcely one third of the committee. Moreover, it may be inferred that the delegate, like the legislator, will become more useful the longer he serves; and again by this plan there must always be a majority of experienced delegates, fifteen of the twenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Conference Committee. | 2/18/1885 | See Source »

...course of study prescribed for an Athenian boy equal prominence was given to both mental and physical training. While yet at school, the boy became proficient in the lighter exercise, a certain part of each day being devoted to work in the gymnasium. At the age of fifteen, the regular course of instruction in athletics was begun, which fitted the youth to participate in the great games, "field meetings" we would call them now, held every year at Athens. Higher honors were conferred on the victors in these games than fall to the lucky prizeman at Oxford or Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Athens. | 2/14/1885 | See Source »

...English 12 who find it hard to write a page of MS a day will be pleased (?) to know that Alexandre Dumas would not have quite finished his works, if he had written fifteen pages (each of two hundred words) every day for twenty-two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/7/1885 | See Source »

Twelve or fifteen men have joined the Co-operative this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/5/1885 | See Source »

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