Word: spending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tried by the directors until it is definitely decided whether the college will grant sufficient aid to permanently support the undertaking or not. Such a move would undoubtedly add very largely to the popularity of the reading-room, and men would find in it a pleasant place to spend an idle evening in conversation or in the perusal of the latest newspapers and magazines...
...therefore, would not be seen until these trained athletes had left college and new ones must come forward to take their place. Now these new athletes must have teachers and if so one of two things must happen. Either there must be a trainer or the trained athletes must spend their time in giving advice to their successors. The latter plan had to be adopted during the past year and although its results were good, yet these lessons which the older athletes were obliged to give, took more time, than under the regime of a trainer, they would have been...
...brighter hues of autumn, it becomes a common question among the fellows how the long, dull weeks of the winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study is a weariness of the flesh." It is no longer possible to spend one's spare hours in tramping around the country, visiting the many beautiful places of natural scenery, for which this region is so celebrated. The summer guests have all left for the pleasures and excitements of the city; and almost of necessity must the two hundred and fifty students look to their...
...song-book committee which was organized last year was unable to bring out a judiciously edited and representative book of college songs. But, as many of the members of that committee, however, graduated with '82, and as the originators of the idea have this year been unable to spend the necessary time, the project has been abandoned. The matter was pressed less earnestly than it would otherwise have been on account of the announced intention of the publisher of "Students' Songs" to bring out a new and greatly improved edition of that work. The long expected volume has at last...
...there is another consideration beyond the mere annoyance. A great many more fellows than are ever employed spend the day in this way, and their number seems to be on the increase, so there is continually a large number of them who wander around with nothing to do. These purloin anything and everything which may be aid down for the moment; they annoy those playing by getting on the courts; their language is anything but choice, and they make of themselves generally a most unmitigated nuisance...