Word: expended
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students have as yet availed themselves of the advantages of a well equipped reading room at a very moderate membership fee, - only a dollar for the rest of the year. Many will give more than this sum in payment for half the subscription of a college paper, and expend many times this amount for other reading matter, while by joining the reading-room they might have not only the best illustrated and comic papers of England and America, but also the leading journals of these two countries, and the representative dailies of Boston, New York and Springfield, not to mention...
Bowdoin will expend $90,000 on her gymnasium, and the University of Pennsylvania $7,000 on her new athletic field...
...support the university teams, besides looking out for their own crew and teams. The reason for this is, that the ordinary expenses of freshman year are less than those of any other. For this very good reason subscriptions bear less hardly on them, and they are expected to expend liberally to all calls upon their overflowing purses...
...before, they were $6,323. This is surely not a matter of sufficient importance to take up the valuable time of the Committee. Harvard students are generally described as possessing a certain amount of independence, and are capable of looking after their own expenditures. If students are willing to expend $6,000 or $10,000 a year on the crew, even so powerful a body as an Athletic Committee cannot stop them. If, in their solicitude for the size of students' purses, the Committee honestly desires to lessen the expenditures of the Boat Club, why not recommend to the corporation...
...much can be said for the old custom. But another argument against regular uniforms is the cost, which, according to our correspondent will be considerable, or at any rate more than many will care to expend...