Word: expends
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...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...
...instructors are right in believing that the more work a student does in the feverish examination days the better for him. But we think that if the student is helped by a little information as to what is expected of him he will profit just as much and will expend as much energy...