Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...volume books, epitomes and analyses of longer books. They take it for granted that everyone is in a hurry and state a mass of facts which it is almost impossible to remember. Therefore, such books are dangerous. What is easily gained is easily lost. It is the time spent over a book which gives one a lasting familiarity with its contents...
Since the crew went to work on the river, it has lost three days there. Two of these days were spent at work in the tank and the third day, last Friday, the crew improved by taking a run over Corey Hill...
...commenced Monday at 4 p. m. and every day from then till the Easter recess, except Saturdays, regular out-door practice will be carried on. The work is to be undertaken much more seriously than last year and it is believed that the time may be very profitably spent. At this early stage there is an especially good opportunity for men who have played foot ball very little or none at all, to begin to get an understanding...
...Curator of the Harvard Herbarium for the last eighteen years, died at his home on Shepard Street yesterday morning of an aggravated case of the grippe. Sereno Watson was born Dec. 1st, 1826, at East Windsor Hill, Conn. He graduated from Yale College in 1847, and spent the next few years in teaching in New England, Pennsylvania and New York. In 1856 he pursued the study of medicine with his brother Louis, but did not long continue in practice. For a few years just before the Civil war, he was interested in the Planters' Insurance Company, Greensboro, Alabama. After coming...
After the death of Comenius in 1671, nearly a century and a half elapsed during which he was little thought of and later reformers spent their time rediscovering the ideas and principles for which he became famous. Now, however, the world is awakening to a realization of his greatness and he is finally being assigned to his proper position...