Word: fifteene
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...Bowdoin candidates for the college nine are in daily training. A series of fifteen games has been arranged between Bowdoin, Bates and Colby...
There are ten fraternities in the literary department, two in the law, one in the medical, and several with a mixed membership. The ladies or "coeds" in the literary department also support two. The average membership is fifteen, or less than four to a class. The ten which I have mentioned are divided into two cliques, five in each. Those who are not in any fraternity, the "independents," ally themselves as each one sees fit with one clique or the other. Thus are formed two complete political parties in the literary department, to one of which almost every man there...
...whose death has already been announced, was a precocious student in childhood. He was able to read English at two years of age, and at four he began, unaided, the study of Greek. From then until his eleventh year his only tutor was his mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank. At eighteen he gained the Balliol scholarship...
...system of written recitations is to be inaugurated in N. H. I. These recitations will take up the first ten or fifteen minutes of the hour and will supersede the present oral recitations...
...savants, are generally members of the Academie de Paris, and amuse themselves by appearing two or three times a week at the College de France or Sorbonne, where they pour forth masses of diverse knowledge to a most strange and motley mixture of mankind - of all nationalities - ranging from fifteen to eighty years of age. At the hour appointed for his lecture, the professor, generally attired in full dress, makes his appearance through a special door at the back, seats himself, mixes his sugar and water, rids himself as rapidly as possible of his researches, drinks his sugar and water...