Word: sixteener
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...commencement, Aug. 25, 1830, twenty-four of the forty-eight members of Sumner's class were awarded parts. Sumner's was an inferior part, but all that his standing in the regular course admitted. Sixteen of the forty-eight were elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Sumner was not one of the sixteen, but he belonged to the Hasty Pudding Club, and when a senator, was accustomed to send books to its library. Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Emery, of Newburyport, writes of Sumner: "He never studied, as many young men do, for college honors, but for love of study...
...number of undergraduates in Tufts is as follows: fifteen seniors, sixteen juniors, sixteen sophomores, and seventeen freshmen. Besides there are six candidates for the degree of master of arts and one special student...
...working force of the observatory consists of the director and sixteen assistants, six of whom are lauies...
...them must be a youth of no low order of scholarship as a long series of papers in my possession prove. But two or three (as the funds afford) are awarded annually to pupils of Westminister School in the way stated above. There are also at Trinity College sixteen sizarships, worth L100 sterling a year, open to all on like conditions of age and of a severe three day's examination...
...annual sports of the Westminister school in England, a youth under sixteen years of age ran a quarter of a mile in 59 4-5 seconds...