Word: sixteener
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...that they tend to make education a vocational training instead of a personal cultivation, to make wealth instead of happiness the goal of a child's studies. A man of fifty surely is not a better surveyor or a better electrician for having attended a trade school at sixteen. He has simply started earlier, at the sacrifice of certain kinds of learning which cannot be acquired later. And if one fellow gets his start, others must compete with him in the same way. Thus the old condition will re-assent itself until someone takes an earlier start--still...
...regard to the disease and the University. As the name implies it is a disease largely but not exclusively limited to young children. Only two per cent. of the cases are over ten years of age. Susceptibility to the disease steadily decreases with age and it is rare over sixteen and excessively so over twenty-five...
...current Advocate provides a bill of fare for all tastes. It aims, one imagines, to afford the greatest happiness to the greatest number of contributors; for it contains no less than sixteen items, most of them being very brief. Naturally the total effect is interesting, though rather hard to digest...
...other purchases, made either by the Museum, or by friends, were as follows: Seventeen important engravings and etchings; sixteen books; 296 slides; and 87 photographs...
...Tufts' batting power has been its biggest asset. With a team average of .319 for sixteen games, and with seven men hitting over .300, the secret of Tufts' fine record is explained. Then, too, the record of fifty-eight stolen bases by the team, of which Stafford had twenty, has helped in the scoring of runs...