Word: spending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sever, amount to almost nothing. They are mere apologies for exercise, and are about as satisfactory as a small piece of bread and butter to a hungry man. Men who can content themselves with these apologies for exercise make a great mistake. It is universally acknowledged that everybody should spend at least an hour each day at good energetic physical exercise. Further, everyone should seek some plan of exercise which will be pleasant and interesting, even exciting to him. A little playing with one's limbs every day and trying to see how many ways they can be moved about...
...Roman coins, dating back as far as 400 B. C. They are of bronze, silver and gold; the oldest is a huge bronze as, which must have served the ancients, in time of need, as an excellent sling-shot. Unless you are an infatuated coin-collector, you will not spend much time at this case, but will pass on to other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof. Charles Eliot Norton by Thomas Carlyle. Next you turn...
...given in the Exonian. It says: "We have no grounds upon which to assume any superiority, and cannot, therefore, speak too encouragingly of victory this fall. Andover is trying, with every possible effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail to meet the average weight of our eleven, they are taking every precaution to excel on those points in which ours display a weakness. From the present standing of the two rival elevens...
...that comes to hand and gain enough from the reading to aid in passing the time. It is true that warm weather is not calculated to inspire a great desire to do anything that resembles work, and that this influence extends to our choice of reading. But if we spend a little more forethought on what we ought to have by us when the desire to spend an hour or two in reading came upon us, we would gain great returns for our trouble. A great part of the aimless reading of the summer is a direct result of pure...
...shall not make a bonfire," and by a system of espionage, well calculated to arouse the opposition of the fellows, try to prevent any demonstrations. The result is a long and tedious delay to the inevitable celebrations. The proctors on one side and the fellows on the other, spend hour after hour in trying to outwit each other. Numbers in the end always prevail, and festivities commence at about 11 or 12 o'clock. The noise and disturbance continue till three o'clock, to the disgust and sleep-lessness of the townsmen...