Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was no business transacted at the Chess and Whist Club meeting last night, the evening being spent in playing the preliminary round in the tournament. Following is a list of the games played during the last two days: Webster beat Green; Sturgis beat Green and Carter; Everett beat Chamberlain; R. D. Brown beat Thorndike by default, Chamberlain and Crane; Davis beat Thorndike by default; Chamberlain beat Davis and Thorndike; F. M. Brown beat Glazier; Hale beat Powers; Black beat Powers; Darling beat Hapgood; Brackett beat Greenleaf; Nicolls beat Greenleaf; Taussing beat Nicolls...
...wisely used. Before men have learned to choose, they are injured by the tremendous mass offered to them, much of which is trivial, much enervating, much even bad. For reading, like the choice of friends, is serious; no gentleman can spend time upon low-minded books. And the time spent merely upon what is trivial is a real loss. It keeps men from acquiring a taste for the best...
...expenditures for this year have been in accordance with the precedents of former years. The income has been such that the association has now, after allowing for such bills as may yet remain unpaid, nearly $4000, or $2500 which is to be handed over to the committee "to be spent on athletics...
...Dudley '87 who spent last year at this school, has forsaken Harvard, and is now studying at the Med. Department of the University of Penn. His brother, Mr. A. T. Dudley, is Physical Director at Exeter...
...shows that during the last year a decided improvement has taken place in educational matters at Cornell. The courses have been materially changed and broadened so as to cover more ground; an agricultural experiment station and a weather bureau have been established. Five hundred thousand dollars have been spent upon new buildings during the last year. Of the 1174 students, 708 come from New York state; all states and territories are represented, besides a number of students from Japan, Brazil, Sandwich Islands, and all European countries excepting Austria. Co-education is rapidly growing in favor, and there are 132 ladies...