Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...here to offer our congratulation; the story of their double triumph is told in another place. The accident to our captain at a time when he was making one of the most brilliant plays in the game takes away something from our pleasure at the achievements of the fifteen. Three men - and our three best men - have been hurt this fall in the game. Still the interest is unflagging, and our team still strong. It shows that in spite of drawbacks we are capable of sustaining interest in something, and those who still hope to see our boating record improved...
...Gazette has passed through a checkered existence, and completed a part of two volumes. It now starts out upon a third volume, and makes quite a creditable appearance. Our foot-ball team will be interested in the statement that McGill "now possesses a team strong enough to face any Fifteen in Canada, without fear of being too easily defeated." Experience has taught us, since this was written, that they are no mean antagonists for teams outside of Canada...
...FLAG, fifteen feet long, with Harvard in black letters stamped upon it, has been presented to the University Boat Club for the boat-house...
...WOULD like, through you, to call the attention of the Faculty to the state of the Chapel in the morning. Immediately after getting out of a warm bed, we are compelled to pass fifteen minutes in a place where the cellar-like chill causes colds and sore throats innumerable. I admit that it is impossible to have the recitation-rooms suitably warmed and ventilated, and am resigned to the colds and headaches I get in those cheerful places. But why there should not be a good fire in the furnace of the Chapel, I fail to understand. As long...
...those days the College officers consisted of the President, three Professors, four Tutors, and the Librarian; the number of students averaged two hundred and twenty; the library had fifteen thousand volumes, and was then "unquestionably the best in the United States." "Here the leaning is towards the languages, in Yale College towards the arts and sciences," President Dwight says; but he regrets that even here the admission requirements in Latin ("to speak true Latin and write it in verse as well as prose") were being "continually lowered by gradual concessions." The buildings then were "four colleges, a chapel...