Word: spare
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...previous years is due to the large sale to season ticket holders. It exceeds that of last year by 4000 tickets. If we subtract 4000 from the 16,100 mentioned above, we should have only 12,100 to be seated in the two stands, leaving 1900 seats to spare. The legitimate grounds for dissatisfaction seem therefore to be in the indiscriminate sale of season tickets. Heretofore, it has not appeared necessary to restrict these tickets to undergraduates and graduates, as the sale outside of the University was limited principally to the parents and relatives of the students...
...soldiers engaged in the Philippines could easily spare some of the enthusiasm of their receptions on their return home if the people of the United States would do a little toward enlivening their existence when they are on the other side of the world. Experience in the civil war demonstrated that homesickness is not a disorder belonging to the nursery age. Hundreds of strong men were so oppressed with it that the slightest indisposition often developed alarming symptoms, and the patient pined and died without any apparent cause. This was on our won soil when...
...Varsity crew experienced some delay in getting onto the water for their evening work. Mr. Cook did not speed his men today as he wished to spare Williams and Wyckes who have not thoroughly recovered from their recent illness and the work was mainly in short stretches and not long continued...
...cricket team defeated the Staten Island Cricket Club yesterday on the latter's grounds by a score of 80 to 79. Only one inning was played. Staten Island took the first bat and Harvard easily won out with four wickets to spare...
...that none take the sting of such a defeat more to heart than the players themselves, and none are more ambitious for ultimate success. Judging from the spirit of fellowship and the singleness of purpose which we know makes the nine a unit, we are convinced that they will spare no effort, but no team can do its best when confronted by continual criticism or pessimistic indifference of men from whom it expects support and encouragement...