Word: spending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three or four years ago Dr. Cabot had occasion to spend the night with a doctor in a small town in Vermont. He was informed that this man had nearly lost his practice because the efficient work of the state and local boards of health had prevented much sickness. The public side of the doctor's interest is driving out his private interest...
...some ways this is the critical year of the Harvard Dramatic Club. The victorious energy of the enthusiasm which creates such an organization is not unlikely to spend itself in the efforts of the first year or two; and when the impetus of novelty has gone, is liable to fall. But such fears with respect to the Dramatic Club will beset no one who last evening witnessed the performance of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander." To make a Cambridge audience laugh at anything heartily means success. To make it shout with laughter at some things that are dear...
...regretted that the mass meeting called last night by the Council of Federated Clubs--the first representative body to consider the proposed constitution--was compelled to spend so much time to gain a hearing, that it could express no opinion on the constitution itself. Its action is a protest against adoption by snap vote. For of how much force is a ratification at noon of a constitution proposed in the morning? The machinery of the resolution provides opportunity for popular initiative, genuine deliberation and incontestibly valid ratification. A vote against the proposed constitution therefore is nowise a condemnation...
Undergraduates may not always spend as much time as they should in poring over their books and perhaps they do not attend their lectures with the utmost regularity, but whether they be students or not, men resent having their time wasted by others. To this they are obliged to submit in many of the weekly conferences which are common here, especially in history and economic courses. In these courses it is customary to devote half of one hour each week to a short paper on the assignment of reading and to spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such...
...team will arrive at Farmington at 6.30 o'clock, and will spend the night at the Farmington Country Club. Tomorrow morning the team will leave for New Haven, and after lunching at the Yale Dining Hall, will go to the field. The game will be called at 2 o'clock...