Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bonaparte went on to show how it is that so many office-seekers persist in believing him a "spoils" man, although he has spent his life in active reforms. This is in a measure explained by the noticeable part which he took in the recent presidential campaign, and the fact that President Roosevelt employed him in investigating several abuses in the Civil Services. It was therefore naturally believed that he was an office-seeker, and his reform principles were consequently considered mere party abuse and ridiculed as the sounding catch-words of a public impostor...
...response to a request that they should give others the benefit of their experience. Many letters express the opinion that it is better for a man to work a year before entering college rather than to come here without resources, but nearly all agree that after a year spent in college a man should be capable of earning enough to meet all necessary expenses...
...eighth annual convention of the Associated Harvard Clubs was held on Saturday at Indianapolis. The morning and afternoon were spent in transacting business. In the evening a dinner was held at the Columbia Club, at which Professor A. B. Hart '80 and J. D. Greene '96 spoke as representatives of the University...
...Boaz is in charge of the department of anthropology at Columbia, and is curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has spent much time with the Esquimaux in Baffin's Bay, and the Indians in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, as well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...
...Wisler is one of the greatest living authorities on this subject and has spent several seasons in Montana and the Dakotas studying the Sioux and Blackfoot Indians. The purpose of the lecture will be to explain the designs used by the Indians in their ornaments and to describe the Indian conception...