Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Studinski '97, of Pueblo, Col., is the third Yale speaker. After graduating from the Pueblo High School, he spent two years at the University of Colorado, entering the junior class at Yale. Last year he was alternate on the Harvard debate, and is now president of the Yale Union. He has recently been elected class orator...
...chosen to represent Harvard have almost completed their long and careful preparation for the contest. On this occasion, as in former years, the three speakers have been greatly helped in their work by the alternate, who has not only studied the question with them, but has also spent considerable time in speaking against them on the other side of the question. It seems only just that alternates should receive more general recognition than they have in former years, and it would be a step in the right direction to have the alternates for both universities occupy seats on the platform...
...fund was raised by a gymnastic exhibition given by the different athletic organizations in College, in order to fit up the room properly. $500 was then spent to procure framed pictures of old teams and to furnish the room with stained glass windows, a few glass cases, curtains, etc. E. J. Wendell of the class of '80 was instrumental in collecting flags and banners won by Harvard crews. These trophies, however, were left hanging exposed and have many of them partly rotted away...
...crew yesterday decided on that date in order to gain the longest possible time at Poughkeepsie. As most attention is paid to the speed of a crew at the end of its period of training, and as the conditions at Poughkeepsie are very favorable for time rows, the weeks spent there in immediate preparation for the race are the most important of all. Accordingly, as it is wished to have all the crews in the best possible condition for the race, the last of the possible three days has been chosen...
...which was recently appropriated by the Corporation for the improvement of Soldiers Field will be spent chiefly in filling in and altering the sub-soil. The wetness of the field which has caused so much trouble is due to the character of the ground, which in places consists of heavy clay and marsh land...