Word: fifteene
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...Board of Directors of Memorial Hall have petitioned the Corporation for leave to put in a few more tables. There are still some fifteen or twenty persons boarding at the hall over and above the number of seats...
...Football Team will play with fifteen...
...Izaak, a rosy dairy-maid was to refresh me at noon with new milk, I put on my white flannel suit with some care and started off. My journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance one yard. "Just three miles" is the only unit of long measure used in New Hampshire...
...said of our athletic interests in general, applies most immediately to our foot-ball team. We unfortunately had an instance last year of a case where, with plenty of very good material on hand, no proportionately good result was obtained. We also learned that the success of eleven or fifteen men depends upon their unanimity in playing, and this, in turn, depends on the constant practice of all the members of the team. To have four or five good individual players who belong to other departments of the University, and who cannot do the same amount of work...
After about fifteen minutes, when the applause which burst forth spontaneously at this brilliant sally, had somewhat abated, Miss Rosamond Mortimer, the poet, was escorted on to the stage. Her appearance was in every respect romantic. Her profile was of the purest Grecian type, excepting her nose, which, being a little retrousse, added marvellously to the deep sentiment written plainly in her other features. There was a plaintive dulcet tone to her voice that thrilled the heart of every hearer, as completely as - as - as the squeaking of bad chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty...