Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...January Atlantic, though not an exceptional number, is an entertaining one and contains several articles of particular interest to Harvard men. "In a Winter Wilderness" by Frank Bolles is a description of the incidents of two December days spent in the wilderness of New Hampshire studying the beauties of the White Mountains under circumstances very different from those under which most of us know them. The description is picturesque and to a lover of nature or one interested in back-wood characters often fascinating. Mr. Bolles, as usual, gives the birds a good deal of attention and he seems...
...Museum of Fine Arts is Mr. Richard M. Hunt of New York. Mr. Hunt has had a consultation with Professor Norton and will have the plans ready in time to permit actual work on the building by the end of March. Between $130,000 and $150,000 will be spent on the building itself. Mr. Hunt has designed among other things the Lenox Library, the Presbyterian Hospital, the Tribune Building, the residence of William K. Vanderbilt, lgden Mills, and Henry G. Marquand in New York; the Yorktown Monument; and the pedesdal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor...
These Druids were living repositories of learning. They spent a great part of their life in committing to memory an enormous number of verses, embracing the experience and the ideals of the people. To retain these the more surely in their minds a great number of mechanical devices were invented, and these devices, especially that of rhyme, have lasted to our own days...
...total amount received for tuition in the six schools of Columbia last year was $212,391. Of this the College of Physicians and Surgeons contributed more than one half. Over $16.000 was realized from fees for diplomas, examinations, and matriculations. On business administration $14,157.37 was spent, and the total expenditure for the year was $644,288.61, while income for the same time was $662,380.53. This gives a surplus of $18,091.92 which is increased by receipts other than income to $323,833.48. The estimated income for the year ending June 30, 1893, is $631,202, and the estimated...
...perhaps unmanly feeling that the services, especially morning prayers, are a part of college life unimportant and not worth attendance. The average college man recognizes morning prayers as an institution which must be, but which he thinks have no place in his every day life, and that the time spent in attending them would be but a waste on his part. It may perhaps be too strong to apply this to college men in general, or to assert that they think attendance at prayers unmanly; but it is true that the average undergraduate is lamentably indifferent in this respect...