Word: spend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preparing for Harvard, in the school at Athens. The project has aroused much interest in the English press, who watch all proceedings with a jealous eye. The Academy has even flattered the school by a report that already pound20,000 are in its hands, which it proposes to spend outright for buildings and a library. If the school does not receive its full complement of members from the associated colleges, others, who are competent and who are willing to pay their own expenses, will be received...
...spend the day in mirth or song...
...affluent parents may spend at Harvard from $1,000 to $1,800 without acquiring a reputation for extravagance. While at Oxford, England, a commoner has been known to spend Pound2,000, or even pound3,000 a year without exciting comment...
...card for a college paper, said, "You tell the editors of your paper and of other papers in the college, that they are sent to college to learn their lessons and not to edit newspapers." If he had been told that they had not been sent to college to spend a large portion of their time in the " - House," he would probably have said, "Oh, that is a different thing." There are others who say that they do not want any Harvard trade at all, but nevertheless they seem very anxious to obtain it if they can do so without...
...foreign studios; we have at our command the best libraries in America, and with such opportunities as these, we do not feel the necessity of the old traditional college life, which contained much that is nonsensical and harmful. Many, too, are within a few hours' ride of home, and spend a good portion of their time away from Cambridge, rendering impossible the state of social life existing at the college of a small provincial town. However, while our enthusiasm may not be of the loud, vaunting kind, we certainly all entertain feelings of the warmest affection for the majestic...