Word: spending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...began to play as a junior and did not pitch at all until his senior year. Folsom began to pitch in his junior year, and Tyng, though he played in the nine during his whole course, never caught until he became a senior. Not many, however, are willing to spend so much time as candidates, and some method should be devised by which such men could keep in practice and at the same time not find it such dry work as it is at present...
...valuable prizes at the winter meeting this year than has hitherto been the custom. The winter meetings are exceedingly remunerative, and now that the financial condition of the association is so much improved, there seems to be no good reason why the men who contribute to the entertainment and spend a large amount of time and money in preparation for the different events, should not obtain some reward which shall be worthy of preserving. It is true that contestants enter rather for honor than for any substantial reward, but it is none the less certain that prizes which in themselves...
...made money enough in Virginia City, last spring, to set me going," continued Travers, "and the family were so delighted that they came out to California to spend the summer. They have been travelling around, seeing the sights, and are now here in town staying at the best hotel in the place," and he pointed across the street to a large tent, backed by a brush shanty. "It was a risky thing to do, especially bringing along Elsie, my sister, who is just thirteen, and prettier than she used to be. But I am one of the 'prominent citizens' here...
...much so that when a poor young man enters the university the contrast is more than ever painful to him. This is a matter which must be mostly governed by parents. If they permit their sons at college an undue allowance of money it is certain they will spend it as fast as it comes to hand, with no thought of the morrow, and probably with the fixing upon themselves of habits of extravagance which will be highly dangerous, should a change come to their fortunes after they have graduated. A youth at college should not be denied sufficient means...
...library for a copy of Emerson's Essays, I was told that there was no copy in the library that could go out. I found in the shelves reserved for Sophomore Rhetoric five copies of Emerson's Essays, not one of which was in use. As I spend a great deal of time in the library I took occasion to notice how many men used the copies of Emerson. Never at any time did I see more than one copy...