Word: spend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there be many who spend their recess in Cambridge, we trust that they will spend their time not as we know they ought, but as we ourselves hope to spend it. The uninterrupted period of training which is thus afforded the athletic teams will undoubtedly be spent in the most profitable way, and the college on re-opening will, we trust, see their crews and nine in a condition better even than that of last year...
...entered. In this way the cases of men on special probation could be given preference to those of intimidating freshmen. Another suggestion would be to have "checks," as in many tonsorial establishments. A man could go in at 3, take a check, see how many were ahead, and spend the intervening hour or so in profitable research at the library...
George A. Morrison, '87, has gone to Bermuda to spend a few weeks, under advice of his physician...
...knowledge of them can be acquired is in Physics C where only the last four months of the college year is devoted to their study and the first five are filled with tedious experiments on force, light, sound, heat, etc. on which many students do not care to spend their time. The science of electrical engineering has assumed immense importance in the last few years, and in some institutions, notably the Institute of Technology, the subject of electrical engineering forms, by itself, a complete course of higher study. There are many men in college who desire an extended knowledge...
When opportunity is offered, it must not be thrown away. Given leisure, what shall be done with it? Money is not valuable in itself; the necessity of earning a living is a great safeguard. It is easy to lose one's opportunity through dissipation. Far better is it to spend one's time in the pursuit of manly pastimes. But though play should make a part of every man's life, it should not make the whole of it. A third use of leisure is devotion to literary pursuits, without any result of consequence springing therefrom. Such a life gives...