Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning today the large battery squad will be divided into two divisions, so that Coach Slattery will be able to spend more time on individual instruction. The first of the periods will begin at 2.20 and will last for nearly an hour, while the final session will be from...
...coming at the end. This fortunate arrangement will enable Coach Slattery to whip his material into a well organized machine before the team will have to face its most serious opposition. He added that the spring trip would be longer this year than last as the squad would not spend any time in New York...
According to present plans, men will leave New York on July 1, reaching the various universities by July 12, where they will study until August 23. They will then spend a week in Paris, during which time there will be two trips to the battlefields and devastated regions, and two sight-seeing tours around Paris, including visits to museums and galleries, and to three theatrical performances at the opera. The Opera Comique, and the Comedie Francaise. They will leave Havre on September 1, reaching New York September...
...report. "At the beginning of the year, we had, beside our normal income of about $42,000, an accumulated balance of $38,000 available for buying books, due to diminished purchases during the years of the war. We were, therefore, in the fortunate position of being able to spend freely our total expenditures for books amounting to $73,396, of which $62,775 was for the College Library, and $10,621 for the special libraries which buy for our Order Department--a large increase over any previous year. Other departments of the University, especially the Law School, have profited...
...listening to the queer little buzzings that were heard. Suppose that these little buzzings did convey some kind of a message, what of it? If messages were wanted the newspapers were full of them. Why go to all the bother of studying a lot of scientific stuff and spend hours trying hopeless experiments, when anything of importance could so much more comfortably and easily be read in the morning paper? There is no answer. The one who asks these questions lacks that spirit of adventure which the other possesses. What is unutterably boring to one is the most exquisite pleasure...