Word: fifteenths
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...believe that the academic activity of the University is of very great importance. We do not plan to close the University officially on October fifteenth nor in November nor in December. But the rights of individuals-teachers. students, staff-to follow the dictates of their own consciences in these deeply troubling days will, of course, be fully respected...
Several other colleges, including Columbia Rutgers, and Beutley have already cancelled classes for the fifteenth. Mendelsohn said that many other schools are discussing the possibility...
...Kahn is--like most sensible Americans--against war. He may even agree with the God-is-dead proponents. But Shakespeare and the sixteenth-century Elizabethans believed in war, just as had Henry V and his subjects in the early fifteenth century. The word "warlike" in Henry V is an adjective of praise, not of opprobrium. And the monarch, for "our kingdom's safety," repeatedly invokes God's participation in doing battle when the "cause [is] just and [the] quarrel honorable." For good or ill, Henry's goal is that of so many present-day politicians: law 'n' order...
...contest against Tufts and Amherst last week. the golf team won all but one of its matches. Most of the matches were won by large margins and many of them were over by the fifteenth hole...
...Lipton went back to fifteenth century manuscripts and dug up terms for collections of birds and beasts and types of men which he wants to bring back into English usage. There is poetry in the sudden realization of a murmuration of starlings or an incredulity of cuckolds, Lipton says. Both of these, and of course an exaltation of larks, have credentials as good as a school of fish, Lipton points...