Word: sixteener
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Eight men from a class make up each club. The members of the first year class constitute the superior court, which meets sixteen times during the winter, each member arguing four cases during the term. One counsel is taken for each side of the question, and the other six members of the court hear the arguments. These six members are justices and are presided over by a second-year member of the club, who is called the chief justice. The arguments last about two hours, after which the counsel retire and the court discusses the merits of the case; then...
...first base-ball game with Cornell was played at Ithaca last Saturday. Harvard played a hard game from start to finish, winning by the score of 15 to 6. Paine pitched very effectively, striking out sixteen men, giving only four bases on balls and allowing only seven hits. Scannell, as well as the rest of the nine, gave Paine excellent support...
...Freshman squad has now been reduced to sixteen men who are playing as follows: Pitchers, Mains, Fitz, Farr; catchers, Davis, Simpson; first base, Jaffray, Sherwin; second base, Thompson, Galbraith; shortstop, Mills, Adams; third base, Litchfield; outfield, McCall, Morse, Lynch, Sears...
Wisby stands now an old ruined town, surrounded by the fragments of what was once a magnificent wall, two miles long and thirty feet high, in the cracks of which the poor have built their hovels. Sixteen churches once stood in the town, of which twelve remain as ruins...
...sixteen men now on the University of Pennsylvania 'varsity crew squad went to the training table yesterday. They have been on the water some time, under the direction of Coach Ellis Ward...