Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such questions as Professor Palmer made, would deliberately send in an untruthful statement of expenses. However, we do not feel satisfied with the evidence thus presented; there is room for the further investigation of this subject. After all it is a controversy between what is and what can be spent, on the one side, and, on the other, what must be and what ought to be spent. It is only of importance to find the answer to the latter question and upon this answer the allowances given by careful parents should be based. Professor Palmer has helped very much...
...found wanting, when tested, in those qualities which make the successful newspaper man. An early battle with the world often brings out in a young man that degree of "push," quick judgment and self-reliance which make him more likely to succeed as a reporter than one who has spent all his life in the study of books...
...congratulate the class of eighty-eight on the possession of a tug-of-war team which has proved itself well-nigh invincible. The record made by this "big four" is indeed an enviable one. In the four years which the class has spent here, the regular tug-of-war team has never been beaten. We also congratulate the college at large, for with such a team at Mott Haven our chances for one event are pretty well assured. The class tug-of-war teams that have pulled against '88 must acknowledge that they have had worthy adversaries, and that fact...
...trouble is that owing to the many ideas about the stroke during the past five years, it is hard to get the men to row alike. There is also a certain deadness in the rowing which the men cannot seem to overcome. So the work now is almost entirely spent in getting the men to row alike, and to get out of their heads the fundamentally wrong principles of the last five years. This is what the coaches are working upon...
...observations, also instructions for experimenting. Mr. Hodgson's lecture on Monday evening will be on "Apparitions," and anyone who intends to go may be sure that he will come away with some new ideas on the subject, as well as with the feeling that his evening has been advantageously spent...