Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arguments of any weight were advanced by either side and the debate as it progressed degenerated into personalities. After the principal disputants had spoken R. L. O'Brien followed with a humorous analogy, "Publius Maximus and his Emaciated Horse. The rest of the evening was spent in discussing this simile...
More than $5,000 has been spent in getting Eastern Park ready for the Yale-Princeton game on Thanksgiving...
Confucius was not troubled with this doctrine of withdrawing from the world. He spent his life actively, doing all he could for men, reviving the old morality and doing his best to remedy the evils of the time...
...then goes on to say that nothing of the kind is ever seen at Yale where recitations are brisk and full of life. This is ridiculous in the the extreme. The Yale writer, not understanding what sort of a course English 12 is, has attempted to compare an hour spent in correcting other men's themes, with an hour spent in correcting other men's themes, with an hour of philosophical discussion. We advise our Yale friend to understand what he is writing about before he makes adverse criticism...
...hour longer, the eleven could not defeat Bowdoin by as large a score as it did Dartmouth. The plain, unvarnished explanation of the score is that the Harvard rush line played a miserable game. Instead of studying the weak points of their opponents, most of the men spent their time in wrestling and singging, exercises at which the visitors were quite as adept as themselves. This was especially true of the centre of the line. Such work is not football and will never win against men who keep their heads about them. The tendency of the men to slug becomes...