Word: sixteener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...King graduated from Oberlin College in 1879, and since then has studied at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of Berlin. He has received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Oberlin College, Western Reserve University, and from Yale University. After teaching mathematics and philosophy for sixteen years at Oberlin College, Dr. King became professor of theology in 1897. He was made dean of the college in 1901 and president...
...spring of the following year the baseball schedule was the longest on record, containing thirty-three games. As these figures have gradually decreased the schedules of the minor sports have increased, until the climax was reached last year when there were thirteen games on the hockey schedule and sixteen for the basketball team...
...they are being drawn up on the following basis. A schedule of twenty-three games is being prepared for the baseball team as opposed to twenty-seven last year, a reduction of fifteen per cent. The basketball schedule was cut in half by reducing the number from sixteen to eight, while the hockey team is scheduled for ten games as opposed to thirteen last year. The football schedule contained ten games last fall, the same as the previous year. The schedule for the coming fall has not been announced. Opinions differ widely on the number of games which...
Coach Haughton then explained what, in his opinion, were the chief factors in the success of the team. The coaching staff had entire charge of the individual instruction and their judgment and advice relieved him of many problems. Sixteen men in all assisted in the development of the team and each did so at a sacrifice. In speaking of Captain Burr, Haughton said "he is the bravest and most intelligent captain Harvard has ever had." He began his work the day he was elected and did not stop until after the Yale game. Another name must not be omitted, that...
...skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American schools it is stopped at fourteen. There is in Germany a co-operative arrangement between the educational department and the manufacturing and business interests, by virtue of which the education of boys and girls is continued along industrial lines after they leave the schools. The rules...