Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most boarding schools a student has practically no time of his own. From the time that he gets up in the morning to the end of the day his time is carefully planned for him, with special attention to the number of hours he spends over his book. Coming to college with no such stringent regulations placed upon him the natural tendency is to completely ignore the necessity of planning his time with the result that he fails to spend sufficient time on his academic work...
...subscribe to your newsmagazine which reaches me every Monday. I spend the evening of that day in reading it. It interests and instructs me very much and I frequently pass it on to friends who tell me that they experience the same intellectual reaction from it that...
...came to America to see what's at the bottom of all this 'Prosperity' of yours." said the General Director last week in his suite at Manhattan's Ambassador. "Take bathrooms for instance. Extr'ord'nary how little your hotel men spend on bathrooms! They tell me one really can't pay over $1,500 in New York for a bathroom with the finest standard fittings. Now in London what do you suppose we have to pay? Not less than ?1,000, or almost 5,000 of your dollars!" Though obviously keen...
...Dominion of Canada there is a large corporation which last week was planning to spend some $5,000,000 on two hotels in Canada, and to build a new hotel in London, England. This corporation has also let contracts for an Atlantic liner, Empress of Britain, and a Pacific liner, Empress of Japan, the two ships to cost nearly $20,000,000. It owns some 140,000 miles of telegraph wire, distributes millions of young trees (gratis) to Canadian farmers, has settled more than 55,000 immigrants on more than 30,000,000 Canadian acres, and operates a traveling school...
...trip: Captain B. H. Whitback '29, Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30, F. K. Trask '30, R. L. Tower '31, E. B. Ward '30 and J. L. Ware '30. Besides these men Coach Cowles and Manager J. O. Ross '29 will accompany the team. As previously announced, the team will spend the entire week at Norfolk, playing four matches there...