Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday afternoon the Yale team arrived in Boston and went to the Vendome where they spent the night. The Harvard nine did not practice at all yesterday. Most of the men went instead to see the Boston-Brooklyn league game...
...college, who feel an interest in this movement, to come to the aid of the Union. We believe that there are philanthropic persons here who would be glad to help along so worthy a cause. They may feel assured that what they give will be well spent. The Committee will be glad to receive contributions of any amount whatever and if there are any who care to contribute they are requested to send their subscriptions to W. B. McDaniel, 42 Weld Hall...
...warm days and nights have been coming on and the students have spent more and more of their time outdoors or sitting by their open windows, the fact that the Glee Club has not been singing much in the yard of late becomes more and more suggestive. Whether this simply indicates an indisposition on the part of the present members of the club to favor the college or whether it is the sign of the decadence of the good old custom is an open question. If it is the latter it certainly is deplorable...
Since the class races the crew has not been rowed on record, but does not seem to be any faster now than at that time. Watriss has been very careful of the men, perhaps too much so. For the most part, the afternoons are now spent in rowing short distances, Watriss either directing them from a pair oar, or from the bank. They also row down the basin, always with a slow stroke, never quicker than thirty to the minute. The strokes are long and slow, excellent for a four mile race, but scarcely with enough life and snap...
...second period, the older. Dutch school, included in the seventeenth century, had its centre in Holland. The Dutch had no literature of their own, as did the French, but pursued their studies mostly in the Latin language. Liprius and Gronovius, probably the most celebrated men of their age, spent their time in commenting upon and annotating the lines of Latin authors. The English and later Dutch comprise the third period and include the progress that was made in the eighteenth century. Bentley was the most prominent man of his time, although not much of an author. The fourth and last...