Word: fifteenths
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...Jellison, a member of the Boston harriers, was the individual winner of the race, covering the distance in the good time of 23 min., 50 sec., 11 seconds later, his teammate, B. B. Sheridan, scampered across the final line in third position. A. H. Elliott placed twelfth. R. Greenleaf fifteenth, and G. H. Bradford seventeenth, making the team's total of 48 points...
...news spread over the course that Miss Collett and Mrs. Higbie had left the fourteenth green and that Mrs. Higbie was four up. Galleries and officials who deserted other matches to watch them finish saw something to remember. They saw Miss Collett play reckless, perfect golf to win the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth holes. Needing one more hole to keep the match alive she drove a long, low ball that hit the fairway, kicked sharply to one side, stopped square at the foot of a dead tree. If Collett could have blown the tree away she would have had as good...
...certain that the Harvard collection of finely printed books will be easily equal to that of any other institution. The recognition of Printing as a fine art is closely connected with book illustration, and Mr. Hofer is adding important examples of the best work in this line, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. In the nineteenth century, there was a brilliant period, when books were being illustrated by Kate Green-away, Randolph Caldecott, Sir John Tenniel and Walter Crane. The Widener collection brought to Harvard a good assemblage of Miss Greenaway's work, while Tenniel is very well represented...
...Gallery XV there has been installed an exhibition of prints representative of the decorative arts. The fifteenth century Italian and German engravings have been chosen because of the manner in which they illustrate the furniture, metal work, textiles, and architectural treatment of exteriors and interiors during this period. Schongauer's "Life of the Virgin" is among the best known of the works in this group...
...editions which are on display are grouped according to the century in which they were printed, but at the same time an effort has been made to include the works of as many countries as possible. In the Fifteenth Genuine Germany is represented by the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, a large folio Latin, illustrated by fine wood cuts the people and scenes of the times...