Word: spend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examination in the coming June, and whose average for the first half of her examination, passed in June last, was over 70 per cent., having fitted herself while teaching for support at a country district school, is now making an effort to obtain sufficient means to enable her to spend some time in collegiate study, in order that she may increase her value as a teacher. Such candidates should be encouraged, and the committee thinks that the best form of encouragement is a scholarship, which may be legitimately earned in a competitive examination...
...life of Christ more real and vivid than is obtained from the usual reading of the New Testament. The benefit derived from a daily glimpse of a pure strong life is not to be doubted; and if a man aims only at self-culture, he could scarcely spend fifteen minutes of each day more profitably than at chapel...
...from the plan, whereas we seem to be gaining little or no advantage from it. The cause for this lack of interest and competition seems to lie in the fact that the contests are held on Saturday afternoons. A large majority of men leave Cambridge on Saturday afternoon to spend Sunday with families or friends, and cannot attend the contests, either as spectators or competitors. We would suggest that the meetings be held on some evening in the middle of the week, when, undoubtedly, there would be a great increase in the interest and attendance. If, after the mid-years...
...literature. Latin, however, has held its own, as it is indispensable in law and medicine, besides giving a mental training which the modern languages cannot supply. The proposal of the medical and law faculties deserves special commendation. In this age of competition few men can really afford to spend seven or eight years of the best part of their lives in unrenumerative study. The young man who goes into business is already earning his living when he who has chosen a professional career is just making his start. The age at which men graduate has showed a continual tendency...
...match when it was a big one, but L1 is good wages for a game. And do you know, the women think foot-ball is a great thing. If there is a match on Saturday afternoon, they can get their husbands to go, and then they are not spending their week's wages in drink. They can only spend the six-pence it costs to see the game...