Word: spend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...despised. Poverty is no more to be desired than great wealth. Both bring temptations and blessings. But wealth is not good enought to be worth all the efforts of a man's life, and here many make the great mistake, for certainly there are thousands who spend all their strength in its acquirement. Others make the object of life the attainment of social or political honors. Life is none of these; it does not consist of honor or gold, or of rank, but it is rather the development and perfecting of the character and the striving after an ideal manhood...
Professor W. E. Ritter of the State University, Berkeley, Cal., has been elected to the Harvard Club scholarship by the Harvard Club of SanFrancisco. This will enable him to go to Europe and spend a year in study at Cambridge, at Liverpool and at Naples, where special facilities are given for examining comparative biology. Professor Ritter has already spent considerable time at Harvard...
...some influence in what is called the "outside world." There is a great deal of good thinking done in college, but most of it does the world no good simply because it lacks opportunity. If it could reach beyond college bounds and could be given something besides itself to spend its energy upon, its energy would greatly increase. The trouble is simply that college men and the "outside world" are a bit apt to look askance at each other and to feel that they have little in common. Yet college men are a part of the world and until they...
...varsity coaches will spend much time with the freshmen this year. D. R. Vail, L. S., will take the men in hand and superintend the coaching...
...series of lectures on the decorative painting of the Renaissance and its lesson for the present time. There will be five lectures in all, three of them coming on successive evenings of this week. Students who are especially fond of the fine arts will find here a chance to spend a delightful evening in company with a man who is a recognized authority on the subjects which he treats. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings the calendar does not offer so many events and more men will feel at liberty to attend Mr. Blashfield's lectures...