Word: sixteener
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Interest will center around the Stubbs' sextet who will be attempting to stretch its victory string, started after a defeat at the Big Green's hands just a year ago, to sixteen straight wins. Betting odds still favor the Crimson pucksters, but the home team is given a better than fighting chance to reverse that decision because of their fine showing at the Boston Garden last months when Captain Ford saved the Harvard cause with two markers in the last period...
...third place, for those students who are to receive only partial tutorial instruction and who will, therefore, be expected to gain an understanding of their subject and to prepare for the general examinations more heavily by course work, it will be necessary to restore the old course requirement of sixteen courses in addition to prescribed English...
...Pont Fellowship Plan was inaugurated by the du Pont Company in 1918. In that year, seventeen fellowships with an average stipend of $750 were made available to sixteen universities for research chemistry...
...this second class only interim instruction will be given,--just enough, ideally, to bridge the gaps between courses,--and sixteen full courses will be required, instead of the present dose of fifteen. That the Dean is alive to the danger that men in this second class may not cover their fields as "comprehensively" as before is shown by the provision that the general examinations may have to be revised to fit the schedules of "Class B" concentrators...
...shown that he intends to stay in this poker game of educational policy, but yesterday stacked six more fat chips on the strength of his hand. Next September, instead of only ten prize scholarships to draw entering Freshmen of outstanding ability principally from the Middle West, there will be sixteen reaching out to the Far West and deep South. In President Conant's plan, as compared to the relatively romantic and revolutionary proposals of Hutchin's recent essay, "The Higher Learning in America", there is the practicality of the scientist, and that empirical element of moderation and progress which Burke...