Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seventeen seniors and twenty-seven juniors are trying for the Boylston prizes...
...storm has desolated New Iberia, La. Fifteen hundred people are homeless and the river seventeen feet above high water...
...Calendar. A brief synopsis of the course may not be uninteresting here. Two years of work in the literary department of this university, or one of equal standing, is required for entrance. The course of study occupies three years, and may be selected from the following list of studies: Seventeen courses in history, two courses in political economy, one course in international law, one course in sanitary science, one course in social science, one course in forestry. These courses vary in length from twice a week for one semester upwards...
American students now enter college at the average age of seventeen. We have recently seen an old English book with the date of 1785, in which the average age of "ye freshmen at ye College of Harvard" is given as thirteen years and six months...
...salute of seventeen guns was fired from Ft. Monroe Saturday, in honor of the arrival of Secretary of the Treasuary Folger...