Word: spending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this plan, if carried into execution, should not succeed perfectly. Our scholars are as thorough as any, and the result of their efforts could not fail to be a text that would serve as a standard to colleges and schools. It is true that in Germany and England men spend their lives in comparing manuscripts, and think they have accomplished no small task if they can find some trustworthy authority for changing the spelling of a single word in a book whose text is acknowledged the most accurate. We should have the advantage of compiling an edition from the many...
...glad to see, by the President's Report, that an effort is being made to increase the advantages of a post-graduate course. Many students feel a desire to spend a year or two in study here after they have finished their college course, and to give their time either to studies they have been unable to pursue before, or to some subject which they make a specialty. To the former class the college electives offer a good field for work, and they can push their studies in whatever direction they choose; but to the latter there is presented...
...honors were distributed, the jack-knife was awarded to him. The jack-knife, it seems, was given, nominally, to the homeliest man in the class. In Wright's case, however, it was a mark of appreciation. Twenty-five dollars was voted to him, which he in vain tried to spend on a knife...
...know exactly what "the thing" is, forms the chief ambition of many of us here at Harvard; we spend most of our time in trying to find out its character, seldom, however, with any satisfactory results...
...continued the young lady, "several gentlemen in '77 informed me that they did not consider the ordinary degree difficult enough, and so intended to spend another year in studying for something higher...