Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...
...Wheelwright '94, R. B. Beals '94, and G. Crompton '96, of Harvard, and Wolcott, Wade, Brooks and Wright, of Yale, met in Springfield to make arrangements for the coming track athletic meeting at New Haven. The total weight of the hammer for the future was fixed at sixteen pounds. Starters in the bicycle race who overstep the mark are hereafter to be subject to penalty...
...applicants for admission on the waiting list. Boys are admitted between the ages of six and ten years, and they must leave the college at eighteen years of age. The average age of those admitted during the year 1893 was eight and a quarter years and of those dismissed sixteen years, showing an average of seven and three-quarters years of maintenance and education for each pupil. Mr. Girard, in his will, says, "Those scholars...
...series of sixteen lectures on fencing will be given at Yale during February...
...club will surely be a success if money enough can be reaised, for the boys are always glad to join a club of this sort, and it looks as if men enough to run it could easily be found in college. Sixteen or more active workers are needed to run the club and a much larger number are needed to raise the money. About $1300 a year will be needed. The volunteers are to be divided into four committees, of which the chairmen are: R. Talbot '94, R. W. Emmons '95, R. Wheatland '95, W. S. Patten '95. Anyone...