Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...able to overcome completely this difficulty even with only eleven hundred men in the hall. And there is one more objection to a permanent arrangement putting the membership far beyond the seating capacity. Take for example the plan of having a club of twenty men to each twelve or fourteen seat table which would only bring the membership up to about eleven hundred and fifty. The majority of men come to breakfast just before nine, to lunch, at one; nearly all tables would be full at those hours, for at present many club tables are full. That all men would...
...sure that precisely these plans could be put in operation, but the important fact is that additional waiters, increasing the present number not more than in the proportion of eighteen to fourteen, could probably so be used in perfecting the organization of the service as to maintain, for the increased number of men at club tables, an unlowered standard of service...
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...
...compromise between the two plans mentioned would bring about the desired result. The general tables might well be continued with the proposed reduction in the number of students there, but, instead of reducing the total number in the hall, the number at each club table could be raised from fourteen to eighteen. This increase at the club tables would almost exactly balance the decrease at the general tables. Some club tables already have two extra men, and suffer no inconvenience; that four extra men would destroy, or even seriously impair, the pleasant social relations now existing in the hall seems...
shall merit it shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age; they shall then be bound out," etc. Progress in the school-room is deemed the only proper standard of merit, and all pupils who become fifteen years of age and fail to reach the fourth school, after from five to nine years' instruction, will be required to give place to those on the list of applicants for admission...