Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sixteen men, composing the gymnastic team of the University of Pennsylvania, started yesterday on a tour through the western part of the state. They will give exhibitions in five different cities...
Last year there were sixteen students at the school, of whom two were natives of Japan, while this year there are but twelve. The degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science was given to one student last commencement...
...moderate grade of the Harvard College admission examinations is considered, it seems absurd that the average age of the entering classes should be close to nineteen years; yet such is still the case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole...
After pointing out the lack of any natural boundaries separating New England from its neighbors, he said that only about twenty of the sixteen hundred flowering plants of the district could be called characteristic. All of the rest pass freely back and forth over barriers which exist only on the map. The vegetation of a country is the expression of ancestral peculiarities modified by the surroundings. The remote ancestry of our flora was proved by the late Professor Gray to be the same as that of Eastern Asia, and hence many species occur in the Atlantic States which are substantially...
...figures published in another column from the report of the Dean of the Faculty, show among other things a steady increase in the number of students who are credited before the end of their junior year with sixteen or more courses. The number in 1894 amounted to more than one-fifth of the total number (348) who received the degree of A. B. and of these only three had been credited with courses at the entrance examinations. The figures are evidence that the opportunity which the Faculty allows through the elective system for doing more than the required amount...