Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things attempted has been to improve the condition of Harvard College, approving, and supporting financially, the policy of the Faculty. Here a new departure has been made by a gradual and experimental change matured through a period of fourteen years. It consists of requiring every student, in addition to acquiring some familiarity with the principal lines of human thought, to concentrate on some subject; and in all departments, save mathematics and the physical sciences, to prove his mastery of its by a comprehensive or general examination before graduation. As the subject is broader than any combination of separate courses...
...250th anniversary of the day when Pére Marquette landed at Chicago. Then he proceeded to the stockyards, saw herds of blooded stock and crowds of enthusiastic people. At dinner in the evening, he spoke at Stock Yards Inn on the post-War troubles of livestock raisers. Fourteen hours after arriving in Chicago, the Presidential party started back for the Capital. ¶ On the return trip, B. & O. officials split the President's train in two at Willard, Ohio, and the through cars went ahead in a special section arriving two and a half hours ahead of time...
...hundred and forty-two of nine. 109 of ten, 90 of eleven, 34 of twelve, 24 of-thirteen, 9 of fourteen, 5 of fifteen, 2 of sixteen ("self-development," "responsibilities...
...latter year as well as in 1896 Harvard and Yale fell apart, over both eligibility rules and playing rules. In these two years Harvard and Princeton resumed relations upon the gridiron, Princeton winning in both years. And then again they ceased to play, the series being thus interrupted for fourteen years. During these long and barren years numerous college diplomatists, graduates and undergraduates, endeavored to reestablish the series, but in vain...
Hardly a week goes by without adding a new name to the galaxy sprung up to dazzle the world. One lad who gets his college degree at the age of fourteen sparkles for a moment in the public eye. Then the spotlight falls upon a ten-year old lightning calculator. For an instant a boy of twelve who in two months learns German and enough French to carry on conversation holds the stage. But his glory pales beside a youth who has just mastered his fifteenth language, and that Hebrew. Boy chess champions, "little Sampson" Otts, Jackle Coogans, Baby Peggys...