Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday afternoon the senior crew were out on the river for more than an hour, with Fennessy coaching. The crew went up the river to get out of the wind, and spent the time practicing a sharp recover and slowing down the slides. Shepard, who usually rows at six, did not row yesterday, as he was ill. Fox took his place...
...entered Harvard with the class of 1893. After graduating he entered the law office of Carlisle and Johnson, in Washington, where he studied law, and was a member of the Law School of Columbian University. He spent the greater part of last winter at Cairo, Egypt, as a special agent of the Agricultural Department, but returned to Washington last fall and resumed the study...
...most elementary kind and are now almost unknown. The condition of the library was very unsatisfactory. There was no income provided for the purchase of books, all books being acquired either by presentation or by special appropriation. Not until 1863 was the card catalogue introduced by Ezra Abbott who spent three years in perfecting this device which is now in general use in all libraries. Until 1857 all examinations in the college were oral. The whole class was kept sitting for four hours while a special committee, appointed for that purpose, asked questions of the students...
...regular members of the School, and will be required to pursue their studies, under the supervision of the Directors of the School, for the full school year of ten months, beginning October 15, 1896. They will reside ordinarily in Rome; but a portion of the year may be spent with the consent and under the advice of the Directors, in investigations elsewhere in Italy, or in travel and study in Greece under the supervision of the Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In addition to his general studies, each holder of a Fellowship is required...
Robert Burns, said Mr. Copeland in his lecture last evening, was born on a farm in Scotland in the year 1759 and, with the exception of two long visits and one short visit to Edinburgh, spent in the country by far the greater part of his short life of thirty-seven years. He was induced to publish his poems in Kilmarnock in 1786 with the hope of raising money to pay his passage to Jamaica, and the success of an enlarged edition of this volume was such that he was not only the lion of the winter in Edinburgh...