Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifteen candidates were named yesterday afternoon to fill the places on the Harvard Board of Overseers left vacant by the expiration of the terms of five members. The names were submitted by the committee on nominations of the Harvard Alumni Association. At the same time the committee named nine candidates to fill the three vacancies occuring in June on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...undergraduates the question of good and regular food has been set at rest by the Houses, and for the Business School by the dining rooms in its dormitories; but there are one thousand graduate and fifteen hundred law students, beside others, mostly without provision. In their case Memorial Hall is by no means remote, and it has been proposed to fit it up for them, so far unfortunately without response on their part...
...principles rather than practice was the essence of Langdell's system. It has made the reputation of the School and is the source of its strength. The Dean speaks also of the limitation of numbers, which has been forced upon us by their enormous growth. There are now over fifteen hundred students, quite as many as can be properly cared for. This year, he says, six hundred and fifty have been selected from eight hundred and seventy well qualified applicants, resulting in a distinct improvement in the student body...
...kind of authoritarianism in politics and religion as well as in literature, but he has achieved a solid fame without ever saying or writing anything which seems likely to be popular. He is the most conspicuous survivor among the group of young men who set out some ten or fifteen years ago to remake the literary tradition, and he has gradually become the most generally accepted leader of what he would certainly refuse to call "the young intellectuals". The appointment should be gratifying to him and will certainly contribute largely to the intellectual life of America. The Nation...
...swift rise in the football world is investigated and professional tactics are found to be the reason, the University of Southern California jails one of its players because he was suspected of divulging plays, and Navy comes out for open proselyting of secondary school athletes. Get players "who average fifteen pounds heavier than the present run of material" says the Annapolis athletic director...