Word: spend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...maintain them in this great city of Cambridge which boasts of not a single respectable hostelry. The management of Memorial Hall has helped them partially out of their quandary by offering to admit the delegates to the hall, allowing them to occupy the seats of those students who spend the holidays at home. Inasmuch as the inclemency of our New England climate at this time of year does not favor the pitching of tents upon Jarvis and Holmes fields, the committee is obliged to ask the students for the use of their rooms for several days of the vacation. Fifty...
...regard to the amount of critical work required, I do not consider it at all excessive. Two only of the twelve themes required are criticisms, and surely one sixth of the allotted work is by no means too much to spend in this important practice. As to the criticisms of the themes of fellow students, the work required upon each of them is that of perhaps half an hour, or at any rate so trifling as to scarcely be worthy of a second thought...
...hear the low sigh of the maiden aunt at "those horrid Harvard punches." But when revolving time brings us face to face with questions of Harvard finance, the country is inundated with a mass of information concerning the Harvard pocket-book which is more stupendous than truthful. If we spend much, we are thought occasionally to replenish our pockets by innocent bets, and thus to obviate any temporary disadvantages arising from lack of funds. One of the glittering journals of New York has investigated the accounts of the average Harvard student, and we are pleased, for our vanity of course...
...senior class at Princeton has empowered a committee to purchase a memorial for the class; the committee are as yet in doubt whether to spend their money on the athletic field, the library, or works of art for the college...
...American than ever in his feelings and tastes. Those who have seen him in his delightful retreat at Southborough come away with the impression that not all whom the gods love die young. Few poets have been so notable for the charm of their conversation, and to spend an afternoon in Lowell's study is an event of events...