Word: spend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...days of cold weather bring to mind the need of a place for skating during the winter. The ponds about Cambridge are free from snow during only a small part of the cold season, and even then they are so inaccessible that comparatively few men can afford to spend the time necessary to go to them. If on the other hand, a place were provided near by, and the lce kept in condition for skating the greater part of the winter, it is probable that as many students would engage in this form of exercise as take part...
...favor of it remove the objections which have been urged against it. Skating is the finest exercise which can be had in the open air in the cold season, and an opportunity to enjoy it near at hand would be welcomed by a large body of students who spend their afternoons in hot rooms, because they have not time to go to Fresh Pond, or Arlington, or Jamaica Pond. The gymnasium is undeniably unable to reach many men who would like exercise through the winter, simply because of the old bathing question with which the students are thoroughly disgusted. These...
...Harvard and Yale elevens spend their days in much the same fashion. They breakfast at about eight. In the middle of the forenoon Yale has individual practice on the gymnasium lot, and Harvard has practice in punting and catching kicks. At 12.30 the teams lunch. In the afternoon about two hours are given to the regular practice. After dinner the Yale players rehearse new plays and signals on the floor of the gymnasium. The Harvard team meets nearly every evening in the Carey Building for like purposes...
...couple of club tables, which pay almost entirely the expense of the house. By this means the place is always kept running. One object of the plan is that the house shall become a headquarters, where any old 'varsity man may go for a meal or to spend any time he may find on his hands while in Cambridge. It is hoped by Mr. Herbert White, to whom the credit of this arrangement is due, that these quarters may be permanent till such time as athletics shall move bodily to Soldiers' Field...
...nine will spend today at Wellesley Hills to avoid the excitement of Class...