Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the party will proceed on Monday, April 20, to Worcester, Mass., where the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Co.'s works will be visited. The same night they will leave for Providence, R. I., where two days will be spent in inspecting the Rhode Island Locomotive Works, and the establishments of the Brown and Sharpe Mfg. Co., the Corliss Steam Engine Co., and other engine building firms. Students desiring to join this party are requested to see me before the 18th inst. The visits are open to all members of the University...
...junior crew spent most of Saturday afternoon rigging their new shell, which has been hired from the Bradford Boat Club. Towards evening the crew went out in the shell for the first time this year and rowed a few short stretches. The launch which the crew has been using is having its boiler repaired in order to make it fast enough to keep up with the shell. Connor, who has been rowing at six, has been taken out of the boat, and this has necessitated a change in the whole order of the crew. They are now rowing as follows...
...expenses of a student were rather large. Judge Grant estimated that he spent $1,000 each of his first two years, and somewhat more during the last two. As the regulation board was very poor, most of the students preferred club tables, where they paid $8 a week for board...
...sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then was not over $1000. Yet they had their fair share of victories. Many sports now enjoyed were unknown then. The gymnasium then was small, but it was freely and conscientiously used...
...fortune on the death of his father and went to Athens hoping to find Plato there. Since Plato was away, he waited for his return, and about 360 became a student at the Academy where he remained until Plato's death. He then went to Asia Minor and spent three years at Hermeas whence he was summoned to Macedon to tutor Alexander the Great...