Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After its splendid victory at New Haven, the nine returned to Springfield Saturday night, and there spent Sunday. Monday morning it went to Amherst and played a game which advances Harvard one step nearer towards the pennant...
Baldwin, '85, acted as chorister, and many choruses and solos were sung. Mr. Fiske, the auditor, in his response read a poem in which he contrasted the old Thayer Club with the present Dining Association. After an evening well spent discussing the delicacies of the banquet, and listening to the many toasts and songs, the directors adjourned sine die, with twenty-seven cheers...
...divided into periods of two years each. The first two years are devoted to giving the cadet-general instruction that will enable him to pursue his subsequent studies with greater facility. The succeeding two years are devoted to professional subjects, seamanship, gunnery, etc. The two years at sea are spent in sea-going ships and are devoted to the application of the principles learned at the academy, and to the requirement of that professional knowledge that can only be gained by experience. Such is the general plan of the Naval Academy. How well this plan is carried out, and whether...
...order to show how this order system has grown, the following figures have been gathered through the courtesy of the Auditor. This table shows the average amount spent by each man per week for extras...
...much time and energy is spent upon our military duties, that all athletic sports are practically abandoned. We have no base-ball, no foot-ball, no boating, although the material for either of the last two is splendid, and some day we may have in the field, an eleven with a five pound heavier average than Yale...