Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the senior class in the Civil Engineering Department took a trip recently under the direction of Professor Smith. Three days were spent in visiting the various large machine works in Philadelphia and Bethlehem...
...change in sentiment does not seem hard to explain. Declamation, except perhaps by a professional who has spent many years in training, is unreal and uninteresting. Declamations worth listening to can hardly be expected from a student who has few opportunities for training and whose effort at the contest is the result of two or three weeks of work. The average Boylston Prize declamation is little more than an exhibition of memory. Debating has the advantage of being within the powers of the average student; and even poor debating is valuable, as poor declamation is not, because...
...game of hockey is rapidly becoming popular among some of the larger universities. There are already organized teams at Brown, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Cornell, and the Yale team has already played a number of games with local teams in New Haven. At Princeton the team spent a part of the Christmas recess in training on the ponds about the town. In Philadelphia also the unusually cold weather before Christmas was favorable to the development of an interest in the game. The game has become so popular and so general that an intercollegiate league is talked...
Arthur Dexter '51, died last Saturday at his home in Boston. After leaving college he spent much of his time in Paris and Rome, studying art and architecture. Mr. Dexter wrote many reviews for the magazines on subjects in art and literature, and was the author of the chapter on "The Fine Arts in Boston" in the Memorial History of Boston...
After graduating he spent one year at the University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. The next two years he spent at Harvard, taking his degree of A. M., and studying the languages and the fine arts. Last winter he spent in Florence, living in an Italian family, in order to learn Italian more thoroughly. He was studying the fine arts with particular reference to the Art and Literature of the Renaissance. He had planned to go back again to Florence this year and to continue his studies with a view of eventually becoming a teacher in his chosen subject. Last summer...