Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purchaser could be found, the boat club can expect to get no more than a nominal price for them. Thus, aside from the fact that we have an opportunity of showing our kindly feeling toward Exeter, it is more for our own interests to give her some of our spare boats in preference to selling them for an inconsiderable sum. We wish, therefore to call the attention of the executive committee to the matter, in hopes that they will ascertain exactly what Exeter's wants are, and then make some arrangement towards satisfying her needs...
...other men who have sat in the boat in previous years refuse to row again for reasons best known to themselves; and altogether the outlook is decidedly dark. Under these circumstances it is the clear duty of every man in the class who is of suitable physique, and can spare the time, to offer his services to the captain. Eighty-three began her boating career with a victory, and we believe that it is in her power to end it with one, provided she shows that determination to win which has hitherto been the marked characteristic of the class...
...Yale) Unattainable, which appeared in its supplement last year and so like the fox who was minus a tail, it deems it its only policy to deride all those who do aspire to artistic display, and chatter that these are but blemishes from which may the gods ever spare its pure pages. Oh, crafty antediluvians of Yale! - [Athenaeum...
...college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer class-fellows are placed by the present system. They have either to contribute what they cannot spare or undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games...
...rehearsal of the class song will be held in Boylston Hall this evening at 7.30. As the rehearsal will last but half an hour, it is hoped that every senior will feel that he can spare the time to be present...