Word: sixteen
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...Sixteen of the forty governors of Massachusetts since 1780 were Harvard graduates, exclusive of those who received honorary degrees. They were John Hancock 1754, James Bowdoin 1745, Samuel Adams 1770, Increase Sumner 1767, Caleb Strong 1764, Christopher Gore 1776, Elbridge Gerry 1762, William Eustis 1772, Levi Lincoln 1802, Edward Everett '11, John D. Long '57, George D. Robinson '56, John Quincy Adams Brackett '65, William E. Russell '77, F. T. Greenhalge '63, and Roger Wolcott '70. From 1780 to 1807 every governor was a Harvard...
From a table of statistics in regard to the class presidents from 1880 to 1899, it appears that of the whole number, all but four were natives of Boston or its immediate vicinity; all but three were prominent in athletics, six of them in more than one branch; sixteen of them were Class Day Officers, of whom thirteen were First Marshals. Among their number are three University football captains and one captain of the University crew. Three were editors of the CRIMSON. Two families supplied two class presidents each. They were all but one members of the Hasty Pudding Club...
...list of scholarships offered today by the departments not under the charge of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is given below. Most of them have been given within comparatively recent years: Divinity School, sixteen scholarships. Law School, a limited number of scholarships with an annual income of $150 each. Medical School. Twenty-two scholarships. School of Veterinary Medicine, six Faculty scholarships. Radcliffe College offers fifteen scholarships for the year...
...Sixteen donors. For a Germanic Museum...
...will have various improvements. The boat will be fifty-one feet in length, seven feet and ten inches in beam, and will draw thirty-six inches of water at low draft. The boiler and engine will be larger than in the "Frank Thompson," and a sustained speed of sixteen and one half miles an hour will thus be possible. The cost of building the boat will be covered from the insurance, $6500, on the "Frank Thompson...