Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported that the Association had to spend $50,000 in all for repairs and debts during the voyage. Now it is considering chartering her to other operators...
Beside seeking relief from the heat in iced drinks and cool clothes many students spent their spare moments between examinations and study swimming. The University pools were continually filled and in Westmorly it was said that the janitor had to spend most of his time keeping unauthorized persons from utilizing the facilities reserved only for students in the dormitory. The Charles was popular despite a slight typhoid scare and the two boat-houses provided, swimming, diving and dressing places for numbers of hot, tired students...
Were you suddenly to be transplanted to Cambridge, however, you would no longer fit into the above description, even were you to spend four years here. Every month or two we turn a strange corner and find some hitherto unnoticed building filling up half the block and what is more, no one can ever tell us what it is or why it is there. Some genii could drop a new building, possibly a "School for Making Better Piano Keys", into the midst of the scattered campus, and the Freshman of today would scarcely have learned of its existence...
...same, and the evening likewise. If a means of living without sleep could be invented, we should stand a better chance of passing the examinations, which come only in June and are on the whole year's work. Needless to say, we do sleep, and we do not spend every hour of the day in study, but there are boundless opportunities for work down here and we could be at it continuously without reaching...
...Oxford debate, which has not been completely arranged yet, will probably come early next October. The English team will arrive in America in the latter part of September, spend three weeks in the United States and then go to Canada for a stay of like length...