Word: spending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which seems particularly applicable to the case in hand; namely, the use of the rifle is of great benefit in strengthening the eyesight, and what could be a more beneficial change for a man who has spent an hour over a text-book in crabbed German type, than to spend another hour in the open air striving to plant his bullets in the eight-inch bullseye, 200 yards from where he stands...
...happens quite frequently Men who own no net, go into the building and pick out one to suit themselves. Then the owner of the net which took their fancy comes along, and not finding his net is elther obliged to give up play altogether or spend the greater part of the afternoon hunting it up, or else take another man's net, thus handing down the annoyance. Those men who, owning no net of their own, make free with the nets of others, must either be freshmen who think that all nets belong to the tenuis association, and that having...
...Harvard Bicycle Club will probably start on Saturday next, for New buryport. The club will spend the night there and return to Cambridge on Sunday. Distance 45 miles. All those wishing to join the club can do so either at 16 Weld, or 10 Grays...
Messrs. Lee, Denniston, and H. B. Cabot of '83, will spend the winter in Germany...
...respectable income, so that they can devote the whole of their leisure to scientific pursuits. Both Oxford and Cambridge have each more than 500 such fellowships. The fellows may, but need not act as tutors for the students. They need not even live in the university town, but may spend their stipends where they like, and in many cases may retain the fellowships for an indefinite period. With some exceptions, they only lose it in case they marry, or are elected to certain offices. They are the real successors of the old corporation of students, by and for which...