Word: spending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Farlow intends to spend the winter in the West Indies studying and traveling. Professor Peabody will study social problems in Europe. His course in Ethics will therefore not be given next year...
...Seaver, associate director of the Yale gymnasium, who is greatly interested in compulsory physical training, has been inspecting the various systems in use at the leading American universities. In April he will sail for Europe to spend four months inspecting the various gymnasiums and the work that is being done there. On his return he will modify the system in use at Yale as his experiences may justify...
...arranged as to allow considerable freedom of choice among half-courses of the first half-year, the Mid-year Commencement would be of obvious advantage to many whose work would conveniently be completed during the first half-year. Such would be men from other colleges who wished to spend more than one year but less than two at Harvard; Seniors who had completed, say, sixteen courses during their first three years; and men who had missed their degree in a former year by a deficiency of only one or two courses. In many instances employment might be more readily obtained...
...Bowdoin College a course of lectures on human anatomy and physiology is given the Freshman class. On entering college every student is examined and given a list of prescribed exercises. During the winter term each class is required to spend a half-hour on four days of the week in the gymnasium. For this class drill freshmen have military drill and Indian clubs; sophomores, wrestling and dumb-bells; juniors, boxing and fencing; seniors, fencing with foils. In addition there are class sections for the apparatus exercises...
...building is situated in the midst of a lodging house district, where a large number of the workingmen who have no homes, spend the night. Here also gather the unfortunates who are out of employment, and the destitute; and as but few of the lodging houses offer an attractive place for resort in stormy weather or during the evenings, the barrooms are resorted to for shelter and for companionship. It is to offer these men a pleasanter and more wholesome resort that the present project has been started; but the promotors hope that it will do more than this...