Word: spent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...McQuaid will lecture tonight under the auspices of the Catholic Club in Phillips Brooks House, on "Experiences and Observations in the Philippines." Dr. McQuaid has spent considerable time in the Philippines acting as chaplain of one of the California volunteer regiments. The lecture will begin at 8 o'clock, and will be open to the members of the University...
Wilbur Morse '00 was graduated in 1894 from the Central High School in Philadelphia. The next year he spent at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a prominent member of the Philomathean Society. In the fall of 1895 he entered Harvard and was on the Freshman team which defeated Yale '99. After a year's absence in Philadelphia, Morse joined the the class of 1900. He has since been on three University debating teams, in the Yale debate of 1897, and in the Princeton debates of April and December 1899. For his work in the trials for the debate...
...written in classical Hebrew, which is made up of four different Jewish dialects and is smattered, here and there, with borrowed words of Latin, Greek and even Persian origin. Owing to this complex structure, an intelligent study of the book is extremely difficult. Yet the time and energy spent upon the translation of the Talmud is well worth while From it, information is obtained in regard to astronomy and botany, and we see the extensive knowledge which the Jewish rabbis and philosophers must have had in regard to our more modern sciences. But by far the greatest result of this...
...Wolff, who is to lecture on the "Transvaal and the Present Crisis," next Monday evening in Sanders Theatre, is a graduate of Amherst, class of 1874. He has spent eighteen years in South Africa, mostly in the Transvaal. He was a member of the famous Reform Committee of the Johannesburg Outlanders. He can therefore speak from personal knowledge of the stirring events leading up to the present...
Much time has been spent by the party in making detailed observations of various claims of volcanic islands, their general course and features being noted by soundings where the crests are below the surface. Many data have been gathered which prove that these island groups were formerly connected...