Word: fourteen
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Newnham Hall, now Newnham College at Cambridge, England, an instistution for the higher education of women, opened in 1871 with five students, and its numbers have increased, during a period of fourteen years, to about one hundred. The "Annex" opened in 1879 with more than twenty students, and now, at the end of six years, it has more than fifty...
...because of an improper belt, and the Pennsylvania team did not turn up. Lafayette made easy work of the Columbias, and the Harvard men had to pull the Leigh team, their old antagonists of a year ago. The result was that at the end our men had pulled fourteen inches away from Lehigh. This left Lafayette and Harvard to contest for the final heat, the last event on the programme...
...Hitherto the ball had been kept principally on the side towards the picked team's goal; but the Harvard attack players had seemed unable to get in any shots for the posts. Within the next few minutes, however, Woods made a throw which went through the goal, and after fourteen minutes more, Noyes made a goal by a swipe from Twombly's throw. Time was called before any more goals were made. Score, picked team 2; Harvard...
Williams' new paper, the Fortnight. has just reached the office of the CRIMSON. It contains fourteen large sized pages of reading matter. It is one of the largest of college bi-weeklies...
...show the agreeable action which all horse-lovers admire, and have been habituated to see drawn by artists, instead of the ungainly positions usually resulting from the instantaneous process." This object has been gained, so far at least as arrested motion can convey the idea of motion. There are fourteen of these illustrations, representing the horse running, trotting, cantering, jumping, etc. Col. Dodge has succeeded in giving much excellent advice on the management of a horse, while at the same time holding the reader's attention by the interest of the narrative. Tom, the companion of the author on many...