Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher is judged by his pupils' success in the examinations, he can hardly afford to squander time on material not included in the College Board syllabus. Thus, instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes. Instructors find outlines of the questions in their subject for the past ten, fifteen, or twenty-five years more useful than treatises on the subject itself...
...where about a thousand gathered last year to hear Harvard and Princeton debate. Harvard will uphold the negative of the proposal "Resolved; That the private manufacture of munitions be abolished." Both teams may agree that international traffic in armaments should be outlawed. The first four speeches will be of fifteen minutes duration, while the two rebuttals will last six minutes...
...glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen, she had mastered Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, and French. She could embroider, and she was passing fair...
From the British Museum to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has come the fifteen-foot skeleton of a False Killer whale, a species known to science until fifteen years ago only by its fossilized skull...
...score of 77 brought Robert C. Hunter '36 the qualifying medal, while fifteen other men with cards of 90 or less got into the match play. In the semi-finals, Lynford Lardner, Jr. '36 will play Norman Mendleson '38, and Thomas Boardman '36 will pit himself against Arvin N. Pierce '38. Last year the final match was played in a snowstorm, Alan Pattee, a Freshman, being returned the winner...