Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...School of Geology will open on July 10th, at the Agassiz Museum in Cambridge, where a fortnight will be spent in introductory work, and in daily excursions. The remainder of the six weeks' course will be divided between points in Rhode Island, the lower Connecticut Valley and the Catskill Mountains. For particulars in regard to excursions see the special circular on the School of Geology...
...President Cleveland's administration for not spending our surplus in the purchase of the national debt, but the blame of this lies with Senator Sherman himself, who funded this debt so that it is irredeemable except at a high premium. In answer to the charge that English merchants have spent money to get a foothold in our market, Mr. White said that in twenty-five years of close connection with tariff legislation he never knew of a shilling that was thus expended. Mr. Sherman also says that whoever favors lower duties opposes protection and favors foreigners, yet the strongly-protectionist...
...carpets. Their furniture consisted of a pine bed, a washstand and a few coarse chairs. Men had to rise for a 6 o'clock chapel, from which no cuts were allowed. They had to attend two recitations before they ate breakfast, consisting of folls and coffee. The mornings were spent at recitation till half-past twelve, when dinner was served, which Dr. Peabody describes as "a meal not deficient in quantity, but by no means appetizing to those who had come from neat homes and well-ordered tables." Supper came at six, quite as meagre as the breakfast. From this...
...Dividing the men into pairs he instructs each pair in catches, falls and positions, illustrating the meaning by object lessons and making the men apply his teaching. While Mr. Lathrop is instructing one pair, the others practise what they have previously been told. The part of the hour thus spent in instruction is rather tame, but the last half is spent in regular bouts, and proves much more interesting to those looking on. Two men wrestle before Mr. Lathrop and the class until one or the other is fairly thrown, when another pair take their place. The class was quite...
Joseph Cook, in his lecture yesterday noon, in Tremont Temple, Boston, spent some time in discussing the subject of college prayers at Harvard...