Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choose, in a more obscure and humble position, against many difficulties and amid many humiliations, to continue my task in public life, it is because I want to spend the rest of my days and what is left of my strength in serving the people from whom I sprang...
...matter of classes; and monitorial slips come to bear even less than their customary relation to actual facts of attendance and more to the monitor's circle of acquaintance. Residences are juggled curiously; individuals who are commonly supposed to live in New York or perhaps Washington--and, in dead, spend their vacations there, succeed in establishing at University Hall temporary residences in outlandish places farther from Cambridge, and set out at an early date in order to arrive in time for the holiday...
...General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when in 1921 he set to work hacking down Federal appropriations. Then the vice-presidency was shoved at him and he took it-and continued his arousing by making an opening speech...
That the University track team has been invited to spend the Easter vacation training at William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., became known at the H. A. A. yesterday with the announcement of a series of schedules...
...intercollegiate athletics, promote or hinder the cause of education? President W. T. Foster of the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, has been one of the most outspoken in condemnation of what he calls "exaggerated emphasis" on college sports. He asks our attention to "the weaklings among the undergraduates who spend their hours in cheering a football hero and their money in betting on him, while the man of highest achievement in scholarship is either ignored or condemned with unpleasant epithets." And an article he wrote on the subject for the Atlantic Monthly closed with the words. "The call...