Word: sixteener
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...University lacrosse squad will leave on Sunday night for a spring trip which will last through the Easter vacation. Sixteen men, accompanied by Coach Lydeker and Manager C. T. Crosby '25 will make the trip, following the game with the Alumni, which is to be played at 3 o'clock today...
...Sixteen of these boats are still owned by the U.S. through its Shipping Board*although they are leased to and operated by: U.S. Lines from New York to England, France, Germany and return...
...Supreme Court filed in, all wearing black satin skull caps, except Justice McReynolds, whose bald pate, unprotected, bore the chilly breeze. Sixteen years before, at that time and place, a heavy blizzard was blowing; slush was ankle deep. On that occasion, Chief Justice Taft, now about to administer the oath of Office to the President, had taken that same oath himself, but in the Senate Chamber. The Cabinet, including Mr. Hughes, retired, appeared in their silk hats. The new Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, was with them; in the fortunes of the day, a dent had been stove...
...think." Possibly it does, but perhaps it rather relieves his mind of confusion and illusion, replacing these with fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...Intelligence" must be used in a sense specific and universally understood, before any theory about it can even approach validity or importance. But meanwhile, this latest hypothesis may be useful in reminding teachers of children to save their major burden of abstractions for shoulders (presumably sixteen-year-old shoulders) that are quite ready to bear them; to keep their stock of complicated facts for hands that are skilled to sort them. By such a course, many a prodigy may be saved from himself...