Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seven, four, sixteen, ninety-nine...
...number of cigars, cigarettes, and pipes smoked daily by these men varies considerably. In the case of cigarettes we find that five drag at only one each per day, and that the number of men who smoke an increasing number of cigarettes per day mounts until sixteen Freshmen claim to consume five each day. Although the popularity of greater numbers of weeds decreases from here on, hero is an exception in the case of those who smoke ten per day, for eighteen confessed to the accusation. Four men puff at the rate of twenty every twenty-four hours...
...Sixteen of the thirty-six men now composing the University football squad will be lost to the gridiron by graduation, as eight members of the squad are Seniors and eight are out-of-course students. Yale will be hit still harder, as twenty-five of her thirty-seven football-squad men will graduate...
Several hundred Columbia students between the ages of sixteen and nineteen were still missing when officers of the New York State Military Training Commission called the roll at the second of the Slater law drills Tuesday afternoon in the 23d Regiment Armory. Two hundred students, in addition to the fifty who reported on Monday, were on hand yesterday...
...heyday of the elective system it was possible for a man to graduate from college with a smattering of sixteen subjects and a grounding in none. More recently, without abandoning the ideal of a general education, we have swung toward concentration in a single subject and related subjects...