Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When it was suggested to him that the advocate of the Harvard-Columbia-Yale air-races had maintained that the expenses would not be greater than the sums spent for football each year, Mr. Cabot replied: "Yes, but football gives satisfaction to thousands of people, and much of its cost is paid by gate receipts. Aviation brings satisfaction only to a few, and you can't sell tickets for an air-race...
...very sorry to be leaving Harvard," said Coach Manning, "but the change is a necessary one for me. Of the 17 years that I have spent here I shall have nothing but pleasant memories, and if I have in any way helped the University's crews I am well satisfied...
...eight-line dispatch from New York brings the news that twenty vessels of the Navy's Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible...
Ralph Horween Occ., the injured backfield man on Team A, who was hurt for the second time in the Princeton game, returned to an active participation in signal drill yesterday. Almost every day since that fierce battle he has spent the afternoon kicking goals from the field, and it is in that connection that he will probably enter the Yale game. Until a critical moment his brother, A. Horween '20, will take his berth at fullback. But when the team comes within scoring distance by a field goal, the older Horween's recent practice in that department may stand...
...final week's polishing-up before the Yale game began yesterday with every man on the squad except J. K. Desmond Occ. on the field. R. Horween Occ. was excused from signal drill and spent his time in booting the pigskin over the goal posts. On team A Morris Phinney Occ. had climbed up to his old position at right end, which he has not held since the first game of the season, forcing R. K. Kane '22 back to right tackle. The rest of the team consisted of Steele and Phinney, ends; Sedwick and Kane, tackles; Clark and Woods...