Word: expends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students from the University of Louvain, sent here by the Hoover Relief Commission. When the Commission had finished its relief work, it had still a large amount of money to dispose of. In an effort to use this money as its donors would have wished, the Commission decided to expend it by sending American students to Belgian universities and men from Belgium to this country. As a result there are twelve American students in Belgium and thirty-four Belgians are scattered through such colleges as the University of Chicago, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and this University...
...Harvard men have tried listening to both kinds. It is possible to listen to a Beethoven symphony in one evening. Can one get an idea of the art of a poet or a painter as easily? If the poet writes in a language foreign to us we must expend more effort than is needed to understand the music. In the case of art it is easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous...
...concentration and distribution requirements, and under the added weight of the divisionals, the average undergraduate does not have a dangerously large amount of time to waste. In fact, in order to overcome conscientiously and thoroughly the various obstacles in the road to a degree, the ordinary man must expend nearly all his efforts upon routine work in his courses...
...seems particularly unjust to many men; who, because they have taken five courses in either their sophomore or junior year, need but three courses to complete their work for a degree; that they should be forced to expend their efforts on a course that they neither need nor desire. To them, the work means wasting an opportunity that they will never have again; whereas they have, except for a rule that now has little reasonable foundation, completely satisfied the normal and legitimate requirements for a degree...
...second or business type is that favored by Lloyd George. Here authorities, behind closed doors, may discuss and arrive at temporary conclusions without having to expend their efforts daily in combatting the attacks and criticisms of the Press. When obtained, the results are made public, but the public must leave the responsibility of arriving at these conclusions to the men in whom she has placed her confidence. As for the third variety, which usually results in a deadlock, it scarcely deserves the name of "conference...