Word: spent
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...Seton, well known as an artist, author and lecturer, was born in England in 1860. He was educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute, Canada, and the Royal Academy, London. From 1866 to 1870 he lived in the great forests of Canada, and spent five years on the western plains of the United States. In 1886 he was appointed official naturalist to the government of Manitoba, and published two books on the birds and mammals of that province...
After a short batting practice out of doors yesterday afternoon, a snow flurry forced the men into the cage where they spent an hour in battery and infielding work...
Professor Palache, of the Department of Mineralogy, will conduct an excursion for the study and collection of minerals during the April recess. The party will leave Saturday, April 16, for Meriden, Conn., spending the afternoon there and the night in Springfield. Sunday will be spent in Chester and Huntingdon, and Monday, in Goshen, returning to Boston Tuesday night. The cost of the trip is expected to be between...
...force of carpenters and painters are putting the finishing touches on the Elizabethan stage, under the direction of Professor H. L. Warren of the Department of Architecture, assisted by Mr. J. L. Smith. Professor Warren and his brother are completing the more difficult hand decoration themselves, and have spent a great deal of time in the work. Some very valuable and beautiful tapestry has been loaned by Mrs. A. Cary. The curtains and draperies are from the Paine Furnishing Company, of Boston. The present lighting arrangements in Sanders Theatre are not suited to giving the desired impression of an open...
...Davis will conduct a geological excursion during the april recess to the abandoned glacial-marginal river channels, "temporary Niagaras," near Syracuse, N. Y. The party will leave Boston at 10.45 A. M., Monday April 18. reaching Syracuse at 7.40 P. M. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be spent near Syracuse, returning to Boston Thursday evening. The expense of the round trip wil be about twenty dollars. If desired, the excursion will be extended by returning by way of the upper Susquehanna River, Wilkesbarre, the Delaware Water Gap, and New York, reaching Boston Sunday morning, April 24. This excursion is open...