Word: spending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Stop!" cried Miss Digge, bitterly. "Grinding hard, indeed! You are not even with the majority of your class on the list for Commencement parts. Our servant-girl has seen you several times on the late car. That is the way you spend your time, you dreadful...
...place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain a mastery of the language a long time would be required. A student might spend the four years of his college course entirely upon Chinese, and yet have all his time occupied...
...times," I replied impressively, rushing off to Miss -- of Albany (Albany's population is, surely, chiefly pretty young ladies). The young wretch, after gorging himself with all the salads, rushed at me as I returned pensively from the Alban charms with the comprehensive interrogation, "How?" But I can't spend from now even until after the bed-hour of Beck, '79, explaining the manifold forms of Freshman folly. No, I will write them down, and the Crimson ink-dauber shall placard a notice, and the giddy "sub" shall buy a copy, and become wise. Listen...
...Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young Philip to spend the afternoon with him, and doubtless derived much pleasure from the conversation of the ingenuous youth...
...many who came out of the booths with sad and troubled looks, and who wore great O's on their foreheads. A strong feeling of sympathy seemed to draw them together; they called themselves the Army of the Conditioned, and preached a crusade against hypocrisy. I did not spend much time here. I only noticed that some of these booths were devoted to Natural History, and several to English and other modern languages...