Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...apply for a scholarship. I knew that it would be useless. My marks were not high enough. I believe, however, that none of my instructors would have denied that I was a hard-working and needy student. During my senior year my health was broken, through spending my spare time as a private tutor or as clerk in the library at fifteen cents an hour, and also through lack of food which could not always be procured. Several of my classmates were living as gentlemen on scholarships which they did not need. Some were drawing two of these benefices...
From present indications there will be a hard struggle this season at the inter-collegiate games. Harvard feels very sore over having lost the Mott Haven cup to Yale in addition to all the other championships and will spare no efforts to regain it. Yale on the other hand will struggle hard before allowing it to go to Harvard, for in this as in all other contests, the struggle for the championship narrows down to Yale and Harvard...
...corporation and faculty, 'some things are sacred and must not be touched. Increase your improvements, but no matter how weighty the consideration for the change spare the college fence.' It is connected with associations that are tender and reminiscences that are rich beyond the power of eloquence or poetry to portray. The seat upon the college fence was our first title of man-hood. From it we viewed for the first time that beatific vision of the New Haven student, the New Haven girl; and whenever we return, no matter how long have been the intervening years, she looks...
...long been the desire of the University government, and especially of the medical faculty, to make the regular course at the Medical School a four-years' course. But the difficulty has been that very few men thought that they could spare the time to give four years to a college course and four years to their professional studies. Life seemed too short to them for that...
...victories from other colleges. It is about time that those men who imagine that they support the team by betting on them, learnt the falsity of their position. If some of the men who supported the athletic team by this method had given a little of their spare, cash to the association, the results would have paid even from their selfish financial point of view...