Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifteen years ago Harvard students drowned their troubles in liquor; last year they took to LSD. Today the get high on Macrobiotics, a brown rice diet said to produce euphoria within two or three days...
Rugby is American football without the rules. Fifteen players without the benefit of padding attempt to bring a sort of bloated football across their opponents' goal line. They can run with it, kick it, or pass it laterally or backward. If a man with the ball is tackled by an opponent he must drop it immediately, and both teams form a "scrum," that is, a circular pile of men attempting to kick the ball into their possession and kick their opposition away from the ball...
Their one defeat came at the hands of the Eliot House Elephants. In the last game of the season for the two teams, Eliot House trounced the Deacons with a fifteen-point margin. In their first encounter, Kirkland won by two points in overtime...
Speaking to an audience of 450 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Alphand said that "the form given to this alliance fifteen years ago" is no longer adequate because "Europe aspires to assume broader responsibilities for her own defense...
Harvard has spent the season rebuilding a team around the six skaters who are back from last year's varsity, and its record shows it. The Crimson has eight wins and fifteen losses, and even if it beats Yale, it will finish with its worst season...