Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reported to Mr. Graham, who had general supervision of the work. The runners, after light work in the Gymnasium went out for a short run; the first squad being let by Captain Rust, and the second by J. E. Haigh 1L. The pole-vaulters, shot-putters, and high jumpers spent all their time in the Gymnasium under the personal direction of Mr. Graham...
...Spain in 1492 many of them went to Turkey, where they retained the Spanish language through writing it in Hebrew characters. From the descendants of these Jews it is possible to gain a far more accurate knowledge of fifteenth century Spanish than can be obtained in Spain. Professor Wiener spent the summer of 1898 in Turkey, investigating this old Spanish, and collected a number of songs which he will read and discuss tonight...
...Yale, will soon be published in the Harvard Oriental Series by the University. Professor Whitney died in 1894, leaving the work unfinished. The manuscript was then turned over to Professor C. R. Lanman, of the Department of Indic. Philology, and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, who has spent over five years in completing, revising, and editing it. Professor Whitney's translation of the nineteen books of the Atharva-Veda is an extremely close and literal English version. Exclusive of the matter for the general introduction, the manuscript of his commentary and translation, as he left it at his death...
...that filled the seats--it was Harvard students. After the lecture, remembering that there should be that evening a meeting of the Classical Club, he went to the top of Stoughton Hall to find there between twenty and thirty men, who, oblivious alike of banking and of Yale, had spent the evening in a discussion of Homeric Philology. "Harvard indifference," says one critic; "Harvard University," says another." CHARLES S. MOORE, Assistant Recorder
...conclusion Professor Putnam calls attention to the fact, that, although the Museum spent $1221.62 for new exhibition cases and alterations to the old one, the collections are still crowded. These conditions will continue to exist until the $150,000, necessary to complete the Anthropological Section of the University Museum Building, is raised...