Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...home; - acquaintances they can meet in the playing fields, anywhere, - and what is the chance of meeting any given person among so many? Books, they are unsociable things, and besides there is the Library, Papers? The reading soon had to be given up. And how many professors could spare time to be often in such...
...suggest. Since their native instruction and early breeding is so firmly rooted that the influence with which they have been surrounded during their life here has had no effect for good upon them, it would seem best for them to stay away from the lectures altogether, and thereby spare the lecturer annoyance and preserve the University's good name. For such action forces us to one of two conclusions: Either the knowledge of these men is too extended to permit their wasting an hour in listening to such men as are deemed fit to instruct us, ordinary mortals, or their...
...Harvard stand point. Everyone knows how much cheering helps an eleven on to victory; everyone knows, too what a tremendous audience Princeton will have to support their team, and what a small, though hearty, delegation of Harvard men New York will find. Everyone who has a few dollars to spare should...
...days from commencement; seven weeks from the fourth Friday in December, and two weeks from the third Friday in May." Somewhat at variance with the present state of recesses. Such is the character of the book, and it will certainly pay any one who has a spare moment when in the library to look it over, and think that he is looking upon signatures written by hands that have been mouldering away into dust for upwards of two centuries...
...most important features, if carried out successfully, will be the costumes of the different classes. But this will never be accomplished unless men sign for their uniforms promptly. They can sign now as easily as two days before the 6th. They should do so in order to spare the committee extra trouble...