Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...When land and goods are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent...
...success are so small that the thought of victory is likely to be ridiculed, especially by men not connected with the University, and it is a wonder if sometimes all effort does not seem hopeless to the captain. And yet there has been no falter in the work spent upon the nine, and we are confident that there never will be. This staunchness of purpose, this carefulness over plans, this determination in action at so trying a time is precisely the thing needed, and there is not one of us but must be stirred into enthusiasm over...
...believe firmly that nearly every thoughtful student here recognizes that there ought to be something of a change in the comparative amount of attention given to the development of the body and the development of the mind. The only legitimate object of the time and money spent at the university is to fit students better to take their part in the activities of the world. Now universities, being separated to a great extent from the world, are always in danger of not accurately adapting students for activity. In old days, the university product was too often an overloaded and pedantic...
...Talents. In the Parable of the Pounds the master is represented as rewarding his servants with valuable gifts. As he leaves home in search of new kingdoms he tells them that on his return each will be required to render an account of the manner in which he has spent his money. When he returns he learns that some of the servants have invested their wealth at interest and have made new fortunes. To these the master gives great wealth and cities to rule over. One of the men, fearing lest he should lose what he already has, hides...
...life which have hitherto had all the dryness of text-books about them, quickened into real significance for us. Interest in the play will by no means be confined to classical scholars. A very large proportion of the students will feel themselves indebted to the men who have unreservedly spent their time and labor to make the affair successful...