Word: spent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spent my last five cents on a Sunday Herald the next day, expecting to find a blank space. But, alas! the ingenious editor had filled the fifth page with an advertisement...
...presiding officer having succeeded, after an infinite deal of trouble, in calling the meeting to order, announced that a large sum of money had been bequeathed to the honorable institution which they (the Ferocity) represented, and that this sum was at their disposal, to be spent in any way they saw fit, - setting aside a certain sum for a new dormitory (rooms to be obtained for the paltry sum of $500 and upward), or else a new recitation hall (to be provided with wooden benches, candles, shutters, cold draughts, one small blackboard for each room, and all other modern improvements...
...attention of the Faculty should be at once directed. In the elective pamphlet we are informed that the recitations in a certain course occupy three hours a week, and upon inquiry, we discover that the basis of the Faculty's calculations is that two hours are to be spent in the preparation of each recitation. In fact, however, it is far otherwise. Some instructors, under the mistaken idea that their particular course is the only thing worth paying any attention to, impose an amount of work upon a student that, if thoroughly performed, would leave little or no time...
...income of $300,000. The other $500,000 are to accumulate, and on the death of the two ladies will go, with the remaining $300,000, to Harvard College. The money is left, too, without any restriction as to the way in which it is to be spent. By the time that the College receives this bequest it will probably amount to several million dollars, making it the most munificent bequest that has ever been left to it. Although we are not to enjoy any of the advantages of this gift ourselves, we are heartily glad to be able...
...every class has its various elements, but nevertheless there is a certain tone about every class, as a whole, and the tone of '79 has been a manly one. The College has been better, on the whole, for the four years which the men who graduate to-day have spent at Cambridge, and we extend to them our best wishes for their success in the world...