Word: sixteener
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...terrible tornado occurred in Pike County, Missouri, Saturday, by which four lives were lost, sixteen dwellings destroyed and the crops badly damaged...
...been announced that the number of contestants for the Boylston prizes has been reduced from twenty to sixteen. This is one of the most desirable steps that could have been taken in the matter. In all previous years the fault has been that the audience was wearied by the large number of speeches. In addition to this, the judges have frequently found it difficult to judge decisively, at least, as to the relative merits of the candidates. These and all similar inconveniences will thus be considerably obviated...
...Detroit Every Saturday says that "Agassiz's summer school is to be carried on next summer at College City, Martha's Vineyard, in a building containing sixteen recitation rooms and controlled by twenty teachers...
There were only sixteen men present in English 6 yesterday...
...books. The discipline for offenders consists chiefly of admonition, deprivation of privileges, and seclusion. In extreme cases corporal punishment is administered in the presence of the president. Incorrigibles are expelled. A majority of the teachers and overseers are women. In the department of instruction are seven male professors and sixteen female teachers. The household is administered by a matron, six prefects and five governesses. The order and neatness of all the premises are quite perfect. The college was open for occupation in 1848. With the exception of one year, William H. Allen, LL. D., has been its president. His administration...