Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their last meeting the Overseers spent several hours in discussing the question of a three years' course, but no action was taken...
...Varsity team left Cambridge yesterday afternoon and spent last night in Sprinfield...
...from Carl Schurz's report on the situation of the South, at the time of the reconstruction. The people of the North were in no mood for trifling and were resolved that there should be some reparation on the part of the South for the blood-shed and money spent. Garfield's speech delivered in congress in 1866 in which he advocated the clearing away the "rubbish" of the South and build up the country on a firm foundation voiced the sentiments of the majority of the Northerners...
...Reynolds, of Yale '84, will speak in Sever 11 next Wednesday evening on "Life in British and Continental Universities." Mr. Reynolds has spent the past year visiting the large universities of Great Britain, Scandinavia, Holland, Germany, and France, and will present the results of personal investigation...
...small but enthusiastic meeting of western men was held at 13 Matthews Saturday evening. The evening was spent in discussing various phases of the relations of Harvard college to the west. Most persons present thought that Harvard, though quite well known in a general way, in the west suffers much from various prejudices arising from ignorance, and from malicious misrepresentation by the newspapers. Many amusing stories were told of trivial pranks at Harvard swelled into monstrous crimes by western newspapers...