Word: fifteene
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...understand that it has been proposed to introduce an innovation into the chapel services next year which cannot but result in making them even more interesting than at present. Mr. Locke, the chorister and organist of the chapel, intends to organize a choir of about fifteen boys to sing alto and soprano parts, while the present choir as usual take the tenor and bass parts. The range of music written for the parts at present taken by the choir is exceedingly limited, and for this reason it has been felt for some time that a change was necessary...
...obtained within a convenient distance from the recitation and lecture rooms at any price. The lodging houses in which rooms can be obtained at all are in general cheap wooden structures of ancient date, low studded, small and dingy; and yet the rent of a fifteen-foot room in one of these structures is often as much as a whole house of similar pattern would let for anywhere else in the suburbs...
...Hanlan-Kennedy boat race at the Point of Pines was decided yesterday in favor of Hanlan, he coming in fifteen boal lengths ahead of Kennedy. Both men broke the three mile record, the time of the winner being...
...sixteen pound hammer was used in throwing the hammer. The record given on the official programme of 89 feet 5 inches was made with a fifteen pound hammer. Nine men contested, among whom were L. A. Biddle, Harvard; D. B. Porter, Columbia; E. C. Peace, Princeton, and C. H. Kip, Harvard. Porter's throws excelled Kip's until the last throw, but one made by the latter which cleared 88 feet 11 inches. This beats the best college record with the 16 1b. hammer by one foot. Porter was second...
...bicycle prize cup offered by the Pope Manufacturing Company, to be competed for in amateur twenty-mile bicycle races, is in the form of a solid silver horn, resting at one part of it on a bronze pedestal and steadied by two dragon's legs, the whole standing about fifteen inches high. The cup is in the general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with...