Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tenth University Tea will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend. Members of the Faculty and their guests who will receive are: the Rt. Rev. Rufus Matthews Jones of Haverford College, Mr. Joseph Ford, headmaster of Exeter Academy, Professor J. L. Coolidge, Professor and Mrs. Ford, Professor and Mrs. Hughes, and Dean and Mrs. Briggs...
From the answers received a tabulation was made of the average earnings for the first ten years after graduation from men in many different parts of the country. The figures show that the average earnings range from $664 for the first year to $5000 for the tenth year, the earnings increasing at the rate of about $500 a year. These figures have been deduced from the tables of earning by sections of the country, by size of cities, and by particular cities. On comparison of New England with all the field outside of New England, it is seen that...
...over the deplorable condition of American fiction. In spite of his iteration, the reviewer is not convinced that American novels are as bad as Mr. Seldes believes, nor is he much enlightened by such a paradox as this: "They offer vividness, interest, lightness of touch, superficial interest; What perverse tenth muse broods over them, then, that they result only in stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer of literary matters, with a pronounced taste...
...seventh and ninth, D. B. Priest 3L. and G. L. Wilcox '15 won from A. R. Bellinger '17 (Yale) and H. Tompkins '17 (Yale), while the eighth and tenth boards were taken by Yale, D. V. Baldwin '17 and H. B. Perrins '16 defeating C. F. Wilder 2G., and C. H. Fabens 1L. Since Yale won so decisively from Princeton a week ago, this victory clearly demonstrates the superiority of the University team...
...last half of the same inning after Copeland had given three bases on balls and Reed muffed an easy grounder at third base. Two more were added in the sixth when Burdett, Pumpelly and Gile each singled and Copeland passed Middelbrook and Schofield. The game was won in the tenth on singles by Cornish, Burdett, and Schofield...