Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practice yesterday two hours were spent in bowling and batting, and a little light work was done in fielding. The men have shown steady improvement from the first, and yesterday's practice was encouraging...
...Three Year Plan" by Professor Hall is a remarkably sane and clear presentation of the tendency towards a shortening of the College course. The point that the increased weekly number of lectures necessary to the three-year plan will diminish the hours spent in actual work is well taken. It is a real objection to the shorter course...
...Ting Fang, Chinese minister to the United States, who is in Boston to address the national association of manufacturers this evening, visited Cambridge yesterday. He spent the morning in looking about the grounds and buildings of the University in company with President Eliot, (and took luncheon at the President's house...
...terms, where before the whites only had been admitted. In place of the one hundred and thirty-one systems, one centralized system was instituted with a board of education in Havana, under which there was a similar board in each municipality. An appropriation of $3,000,000 has been spent in building up the system. As a result, in place of the original four thousand there are now over one hundred and thirty thousand children in school, and in place of the original two hundred teachers there are now thirty-five hundred...
Elias Mayer '00 of Chicago, prepared for College at the Lake View High School in that city. He spent his Freshman year at Dartmouth, winning second prize in the Rollins Prize speaking contest. Last December he was chosen alternate on the team which defeated Princeton, and owing to the illness of H. B. Kirtland '01, Mayer was obliged to take his place on the team at twenty-four hours notice...