Word: spending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word of appreciation to the athletes who will spend at least a part of the coming vacation in active training is surely deserved. By such self-imposed discipline is shown the real spirit of college athletics, the striving after an ideal of perfection which will make the team and the individual an honor to Harvard. A word also to the athletes whose training is not so rigorous as to require their presence in Cambridge may not be amiss. Although we do not feel that they should be unnecessarily restricted in the enjoyment of a well-earned vacation, we do believe...
...clock and books may be taken out at 4 o'clock. The result is that men who are unable to be at the library in the middle of the afternoon cannot get books. This proves a hardship for most athletes and other men who wish to spend their afternoons in regular exercise...
...many nights a week does the student spend in pursuits non-academic; how great a proportion of his days? What with so-called "college activities," by which he must prove his allegiance to the University, and social functions by which he must recreate his jaded soul, no margin is left for the one and only college activity--which is study. Class meetings, business meetings, committee meetings, editorial meetings, football rallies, baseball rallies, pyjama rallies, vicarious athletics on the bleachers, garrulous athletics in dining room and parlor and on the porch, rehearsals of the glee club, rehearsals of the mandolin club...
...work and work hard. Many Seniors have been energetic during their first years in College. They have made their friends and their place in the class. They regard life very much as does a middle aged business man, who after having achieved success, retires from active work to spend the remainder of his days in idleness and recreation...
...great many men in the engineering courses are unable to complete their drafting in the allotted time and, consequently, are obliged to spend extra time to keep up with their courses. It seems hardly reasonable to suppose that the men are not desirous of more working hours in the Pierce drafting rooms. Any afternoon a number will be found drawing up to the last minute before the building is closed and it is a very common sight to see men leave the Hall with drawing boards under their arms...