Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Riis is well fitted to lecture on the social conditions of New York as he has spent over ten years as police reporter for the New York Sun. He has been very active in bringing about the small park system; and the improvements among the tenement houses and schools in New York are largely due to his efforts...
...different appearance from that to which we had been accustomed. All hands took hold with enthusiasm and the men apparently mastered the new style, so that by the end of May '97 the crew was going at a good pace. The three weeks previous to the race the crew spent at Poughkeepsie-on-the-Hudson, and during all that time fell off steadily in condition, so that when the race came they were quite unable to do themselves justice, and were badly beaten by both Cornell and Yale. Part of this was undoubtedly due to the harmful effect...
...race in 1897 was a three cornered one, and was rowed on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie. The University and Freshman crews spent an unusually long time there that year, which proved to be serious mistake, as the climate and locality had an injurious effect upon the men. The result of the race was, as everybody knows, most disastrous. The Harvard crew had, a week before, made before, made exceedingly fast time, but in the race the long body swing and the had effect of the climate played such have with the crew that it failed finish...
...improve the property outside of the old dyke, removed when the driveway was made. Few students today realize what Longfellow Marsh and Soldiers Field were five years ago. By economy a certain amount of work has been done towards improving the property, and some money has been spent toward that end, but every year a small amount has been set aside to build new seats. The designs of these seats have been prepared, and are now fairly complete, but they will cost three or four times as much as the Association has in its possession. The plans have been worked...
...their College work, at first with much less vigor, but as the war continued College life again became normal and the students took a renewed interest in their studies and athletics. The war spirit, however, was not dead, as the students had turned the Gymnasium into an arsenal and spent much of their time in drilling. Of the men who fought in the war it is enough to say that they fought bravely and on whichever side they enlisted, they were faithful to their cause and did honor to their College...