Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...just at the time when other universites are adopting it. Harvard originated the idea and it would naturally be expected that she would be proud in preserving it. Instead, other universities recognize what an inspiring influence it may have and hence incorporate it into their system, while we, having spent our first enthusiasm, cast it aside...
...first place, the time devoted to these sports by the principal teams and crews is excessive. No sport which requires of the players more than two hours a day during term time is fit for college uses. The large sums of gate money are often wastefully and ineffectively spent. To football there is the special objection that although its risks are inordinate and excessive, the recent development of the game has made it more and more dangerous, without making it more skiful or interesting...
...most comprehensive in existence. The name of Mr. Ropes is, in itself, sufficient guarantee to all Harvard men of the worth of any subject which he should recommend, but double interest is lent to this subject form the fact that Mr. Ropes's own labors have been spent upon...
...been elected to the Harvard Club scholarship by the Harvard Club of SanFrancisco. This will enable him to go to Europe and spend a year in study at Cambridge, at Liverpool and at Naples, where special facilities are given for examining comparative biology. Professor Ritter has already spent considerable time at Harvard...
...educate youth. This task was even more difficult than that of the conferences. First, the committee made out a tabular view, including all the requirements in the different subjects. This served as a basis from which to get at the relative amounts of time that should be spent on different subjects in a practical day's work. It was necessary to consider further the methods, equipments, and locations of the different schools in the country. The result of the study was the presenting of certain programmes of educational courses to the pupil's eighteenth year. All the fundamental points were...