Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there. You have your millionaires' sons, your week-enders, those who merely make the campus a G. H. Q. for their social activities; but you also have sons of butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal. But one of these groups--usually against their will--gets dragged into the newspapers, or else frequents places where money is sine qua non. The other sort nobody sees or hears of. And so Princeton becomes a sanitarium for weary...
...important function which the University Squash Courts in Randelph Gymnasium are intended to fulfill is, under the present system--or lack of it--entirely unfulfilled. That function is to offer to students who have but little time to spare from their studies an opportunity to get a certain necessary amount of regular exercise; and the reason they fail to do this is that the usual system of signing up for courts has been neglected. There is no patent reason for such neglect; and there is a patent reason why the sign-up system should be put in force...
Earlier in the year when courts were not especially in demand there was obviously no need for limiting the time a pair might hold a court. But now when someone, with only a short time to spare, gets dressed and then finds a line of hopeful players filling the alley behind the courts he is quite naturally impressed with the idea that something is wrong somewhere...
...confused period of the S. A. T. C., when every man devoted his spare hours during the daytime to military duties, the university authorities were constrained to open the laboratories at night. Since the war, however, only in exceptional cases has this policy been continued. There seems to be no valid reason, except perhaps the expense, for not keeping laboratories, like libraries, open until ten o'clock. Having access to his desk in the evening, the budding scientist,--the would-be chemist in particular,--would be free in the afternoon to air his genius on the field of sport...
Think back over your own experience in college. Have you ever become interested in one single thing to the extent of giving it every moment you could spare for a solid week? Probably not. Yet even this would be scanty concentration as far as real concentration goes and without intense application, you can hardly except to rise above the average...