Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sixteen, and not such a fool...
Cornell has 184 new students this term, of whom sixteen are "ladies." The whole number of students in the University is 465, - 428 "gentlemen," and 37 "ladies." A notion of the influences which are brought to bear on the ladies in question may be gathered from a long article in the Review, in which a lecture, recently delivered at Ithaca by Mr. Theodore Tilton, is reviewed and praised in a style that seems to have been inspired by the lecturer himself...
...your face, and, this done, he assumes the tone of pity in asking how you have managed to live through the vacation "on this side." Piccadilly oozes from every square inch of his person. He "strolls" into a shop with you; asks the price of something; says, when answered, "Sixteen dollars? ah! three pounds four shillings. Yes, old man, yes, that's cheap." He corrects you frequently as to "good form," assuring you that he is right beyond question, for your expression is unknown outside "the States...
...have received several complaints of the recent examination in Solid Geometry from members of the Freshman Class; and after careful inspection of the examination paper, we have come to the conclusion that these complaints are by no means groundless. Sixteen questions were given, two of the four easiest of which were to be omitted at option; answers to fourteen were required. And these fourteen are a series of problems and propositions whose solution might well perplex a far wiser mathematician than the average Freshman is supposed...
...SIXTEEN undergraduates have joined Co. K, 5th Regiment M. V. M., Captain, H. N. Wheeler...