Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...example of a former undergraduate. At the same time, this scholarship is to be a reward for excellence. As an encouragement for students to attain perfection, or, at least, to do their utmost, the memorial will be of value to humanity. That the memory of a life spent in seeking excellence should be kept alive by an incentive to develop the same trait in other men must bring widespread approval. Just as in studies or in outside activities, Meeker sought to act on noblest principles, so finally he sacrificed himself, following that path his conscience pointed out. To honor...
Finals are not unlike medicine. Nobody likes them, but in the taking they do each of us some much-needed good. To the student they normally mean merely more time spent in digging up knowledge about a given subject. To the faculty man, thinking up a new set of questions presents something of difficulty, and correcting blue books is a thankless task at best...
Such a move will be most beneficial. In the first place, almost all the fighters have seriously endangered their prospects of success in business. Time which would otherwise have been spent in practising some trade or profession and in keeping ahead of some rival has been used for a nobler cause. The veteran is not only likely to be losing his position, but also to forget those fine bits of knowledge on which he relied for advancement. In the second place, foreign armies include many men taken from the middle of their college career. Boys who have not even completed...
...sufficient number of applicants, work will begin February 1, the beginning of the second term, and will continue for 15 weeks, coming to a close before the final examinations are started. The amount of work to be required is 28 hours a week. Twenty-four of these will be spent in classroom lectures and laboratory exercises, and the remaining four in signaling work. Professor E. L. Chafee at the Cruft Laboratory will consult with prospective applicants. The step toward the organization of this course was taken upon the request of Major-General Squire, of the U. S. A. Signal Corps...
...third practice session of the University informal hockey team was marred by snow-covered lce, but despite this handicap, the squad evinced considerable improvement over its previous work. Coach R. E. Gross '19 was again in charge, and he spent most of the time in individual coaching and correcting many of the faults that had become manifest in the first scrimmages...