Word: misspent
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...cause of the large number of misspent college courses is to be found primarily in an irrational and haphazard beginning. Few are the students, who, starting out with no definite plan of study in their mind and no inclination to form one, ever cease their academic meanderings in order to follow a rational scheme of mental training. As they begin, so they end, intellectual skirt-dancers. To avoid such lamentable wasters of educational opportunities, the system of concentration has been put into force. This afternoon, the founder of the scheme, President Lowell, will speak to the Freshmen on the "Choice...
...practical purposes defenseless-a strong testimonial to the peaceful character of the age. It is much more important for a city to have a good harbor before it than a great river behind it. Professor Hart also thinks that the public revenue is less likely to be misspent in seaports than in manufacturing cities...
Priceless treasures so misspent...
...ought to be, cannot be attributed to the incapacity of the professors, but rather to the laziness and ignorance of what was being lost on the part of the students; for often there were to be seen in the audience gray heads, who did not consider their time misspent, but listened with enthusiastic appreciation. One of our professors, who gave a course himself, when the programme was announced, advised his classes not to miss such an opportunity, and said that he should become a student again himself, and go to every reading as far as possible. Subsequent investigations proved that...