Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath...
...listed. Opposite each name would appear a price, varying from $.25 to $4.00. By paying the requested sum, a customer could dance with the girl and know that within a very few minutes, the evening would be endurable. Two groups of debutantes would not be priced, however. Those who spend the evening in the midst of a riot will bear the simple legend, "a safe bet" while those who find solitude their best companion, will be tagged, "No bids accepted...
...true that for many years Harvard has had a debating council, a formal organization whose primary purpose and interest has been in preparing for debates with other universities. But few men in college have either the leisure or the inclination to spend the time necessary for the preparation of a formal debate. Last year an attempt was made to institute a plan of inter-house debating but the idea was given little time to develop. There is, however, in the Houses a field of forensic activity which the Council would do well to foster. There would be little need...
...latter standard is liable to recognize the lighter pieces on the subject which make interesting reading but which extend the assignment over too much time. The lighter works should be only optional to the student. Some courses seem to forget that a student is normally busy and can usually spend his spare time wisely...
...unfamiliar methods of study at Harvard. A substantial percentage go on probation at the November Hours and, with the additional burden of financial worries, are sorely pressed for chance to express their full capabilities. When finances become low near the April term-bill they are compelled to spend in searching for work time that should normally be devoted to study. True, five hundred dollars is a large sum for any individual club to award, but the fact remains that without some further positive guarantee of funds the dependent man in financially unable to remain...