Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opinion. The president in those days was "It," not from any ambition, or desire, but because other editors brought their articles very irregularly. The paper came out Friday and all the material had to be in the hands of the president by Wednesday. The result was that he usually spent Thursday in writing various articles and poems to fill the paper...
Especially for those students who so often complain of the funeral effect of a Sunday spent in Cambridge, the CRIMSON would take this opportunity of suggesting various interesting and pleasant excursions in the neighborhood. Concord and Salem, delightful old colonial towns, are not merely the receptacle of scattered monuments commemorating the halting places of the Continental or British troops. Nor is the Wayside Inn, where Longfellow actually wrote his tales, a bit of forgotten fiction. Without attempting to catalogue the various trips in this vicinity the CRIMSON would merely try to open men's eyes to the many delightful ways...
...fund is made up by taxation. If it happens that private gas works charge more than municipal gas works, the reason is generally because they are in less densely populated districts, where the cost of maintaining mains is greater, and the profit less. The profit of private corporations is spent in remunerating the capitalists and as management expenses. When buying their plants, the city has to raise a loan, and in so doing pledges not only its own money, but also the money of its citizens. A private company pledges only its own money...
...influences that tend toward unrighteousness and corruption. Much of the best work that has been done in New York to offset this environment has been accomplished by means of new school-houses, recreation centres, and open playgrounds. In the last few years $80,000,000 has been spent by the School Committee of New York in this work...
...Janvier was born in India, was graduated from Princeton University in 1880, and has spent fourteen years as a teacher in India. He was for some time a fellow of Allahabad University in Central India. While in India he was closely associated with E. C. Carter '00 in his work as national secretary of Young Men's Christian Associations for the Indian Empire, and he will make special reference to this work tonight...