Word: spend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students intending to go West to spend the holiday vacation, who are not satisfied with arrangements with Boston ticket brokers, should consult Messrs. Waterman and Miner, who have recently been appointed regular authorized agents for the sale of Western tickets via Hoosac Tunnel route. Those buying tickets by this route can have baggage checked from their rooms, and if sufficient number go at one time can take Pacific express train at Cambridge station. It will be for the interest of all to consult the above-mentioned gentlemen before making definite arrangements...
...much knowledge, they do not look as if they had occupied luxurious suites of rooms in their college days. One room, with bare floor, a chair, table, and pegs in the wall for clothes, is more likely to have been their lodgings. How much time and money did they spend over aesthetic decorations and the extravagance of spreading themselves over a suite of three or four rooms, with soft rugs, easy-chairs, and all sorts of expensive things in the way of bric-a-brac, collected at home and abroad...
...faculty, however, instead of making the recess longer than usual, have shortened it to one day. Their meaning probably is that, while the students complained because the journey to and from home consumed in most cases the whole time granted, it ought not to be a great hardship to spend the day in Cambridge. [Harvard Correspondent of N. Y. Post...
...amateur and student of astronomy we must depend largely for the success of the plan here proposed. Many such persons spend evening after evening at their telescopes without obtaining results of any permanent value. Either no publication is made and the results are therefore valueless, or time is spent on objects that can be much more usefully examined with a larger instrument. Most commonly the observer has no special plan and spends many hours without result, while the same time might have been employed with equal pleasure to himself and results of great value collected. Those who have not tried...
...clubs and ball clubs. That young men should in time of relaxation go out on the green and have a good game of ball, or should go down to the river and have a row, is most natural and commendable, but that they should form clubs for training, and spend months in the process, and have grand public contests before thousands all over the country, and attract the professional roughs with their betting and drinking to the grand show, in all of which study is neglected, and must be neglected, is an abomination of the first order...