Word: sixteener
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...Cambridge on the twenty-ninth of August, 1809, and lived in the old house which formerly occupied the site of the present Gymnasium. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy and entered Harvard in 1825. At his graduation he delivered the commencement poem, and was one of the sixteen members chosen into the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Throwing sixteen pound hammer won by W. O. Hickok of Yale with 123ft. 9in.; second, C. Chadwick of Yale, with 121ft. 10in., third, G. L. Patterson of Cornell, with 118ft...
...Putting sixteen pound shot won by W. O. Hickok of Yale, with 42ft., Second, A. Brown of Yale, with 40ft. 8 3-4in.; third, A. Knipe of the U. of P., with 40ft...
...Boys' Brigade. The club meets every Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock in a hall on North Grove street, hired by St. Augustine's Church. The meeting lasts until 9 o'clock. There are about twenty-five young colored boys in it, ranging from the age of twelve to sixteen. Every evening a half-hour or so is given up to drilling and after that games are played, and when necessary a business meeting is held...
...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...