Word: spends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interest in the local affairs of Cambridge and Massachusetts. Why so? On the slightest consideration it will appear that this is not true. Many of us are here for seven years or more; a great many more for four years, a period as long as millions of citizens spend in one town, because of the varying demands of the labor market and shifting business conditions. Men of Cambridge, we are interested in your local affairs. We are in business here, in the business of training ourselves to take a more responsible part in the life of the country. Our interest...
...scholar is to honor an American university with his presence. This time it is Dr. Stephen Langdon, of Oxford University, the noted Sumerian scholar, who has been appointed curator of the Babylonian section of the University of Pennsylvania museum. Dr. Langdon, whose appointment is for one year, expects to spend much of his time in translating and cataloging the many thousand Sumerian and Babylonian tablets in the museum. His acceptance of the appointment was made possible because the war had depleted the students in his department at Oxford
...predigested information furnished in the city, much of it on Sunday. Ford Hall meetings, Tremont Temple addresses, public library meetings, Lowell lectures and Faneuil Hall meetings, not to mention special lectures, crowd into view. The majority of students sleep half of Sunday and loaf the other half, or spend the entire day seeking a mild sort of amusement. How much better to utilize Sunday afternoons and evenings by attending a meeting of lecture of educational value...
Unfortunately even such a centre of intelligence and athletic equipment as Harvard has men who wilfully or carelessly refuse to take regular exercise, who spend their days and nights in comfortable chairs, and call the short walks between classes, or from a dinning hall "enough exercise for them." Some of them are pathetically conscientious students who persuade themselves that they have no time for such nonsense, and sit for hours poring over books that they could master in half the time if their brains were refreshed by a run, a sharp game of tennis, or even a brisk walk...
...troops to have left, and is expected to arrive in Boston about next Wednesday. It will pass through Fort Worth, Texarkana, Little Rock, and St. Louis; from there to Buffalo, and then home by way of Albany and New York. After reaching Boston, the troops will be forced to spend several days at the armory before they are mustered out of active service. Only 35 horses per batter are to be brought home the rest being left for the Michigan Regiment, which is to replace the Massachusetts troops. On the journey home a two hour halt is held every hour...