Word: spare
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This University has enough men of leisure to man at least twenty-five boats every afternoon this fall. The football team can well spare a few of the many Idlers who watch its daily practice, and the facilities of the two boathouses can be used to much better advantage than they have ever been in the past. The complaint that Harvard has a dozen spectators for every athlete has been a frequent one in our athletics; the dormitory rowing season offers a good opportunity for lessening the disparity...
While acting in New York Miss Adams devoted all her spare time to familiarizing herself with the play, and drilling the cast. Many obstacles had to be overcome. The size of the production made a rehearsal of the entire company impossible on an ordinary stage. Moreover, Miss Adams abruptly closed a most successful season last Saturday in order to devote all her time to preparation for the play...
...then returned to the Latin School as teacher. During his two years' service there he spent his spare time in studying for the ministry and in reporting for a newspaper run by his father. In 1842 he entered the ministry. His first pastorate was in Worcester, where he remained until 1856, when he received a call from the South Congregational Church of Boston. Here he stayed as preacher until 1903 when he was appointed chaplain to the Senate...
...Carman 1L., A. Clarke '10, J. R. Cole '08, H. P. Forte 1G., F. J. Godfrey 1L., J. H. Hadden 1L., A. B. Handy '08, D. Jackson '08, W. H. King '08, E. R. Lewis '08, G. H. McKay '08, A. S. Olmsted '09, L. Rome 1G., R. A. Spare '08, E. T. Wentworth...
...intercollegiate athletics, which give them an outlet for superfluous energy, that in no event would be expended on studies. Without them the undergraduates would take part in intercollegiate athletics to a certain extent; possibly somewhat more than at present. But this form of amusement could never occupy the spare time of all the students as intercollegiate athletics now do. Instead of watching games in the open air many undergraduates would fritter away their time in card-playing, theatre-going, and in vicious forms of dissipation...