Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Farlow has been associated with the University Faculty for over forty-five years. He was born in Boston on December 17, 1844, and received his degree of A.B. at the age of 22. He graduated from the Medical School in 1870, and spent the next few years at Strassburg, in the laboratories of famous Professor A. de Barry, with whom he studied botany...
...Pilot Hawker and Commander Grieve in their Sopwith machine. Flinging away their landing carriage and deliberately avoiding steamship lanes, they undertook a voyage, as perilous as any since the days of Columbus and Cabot. What a continuous flight of twenty hours must mean is clear to anyone who has spent with the hum of engines throbbing in his ears, even three hours in the air. Our wonder increases when we consider that this longest flight yet attempted was made in a plane with only one engine, little chance of floating if forced to descend, still less of being picked...
...conduct of instruction and research in engineering and mining. As this agreement involved the use of the McKay Fund, it was subject to the approval of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. After three years of litagation, that body declared that Mr. McKay had intended that his fortune should be spent solely for the University, and that it was therefore not within the powers of the University to combine with M. I. T. Thereupon the departments of Engineering and Mining, with a new department of Industrial Chemistry, were re-organized in 1918 as the Harvard Engineering School. Owing...
...material ranges in subject from ghosts to British Guiana, and from prohibition to joy rides. Nearly everywhere there is clear thought and clear expression--occasionally there is distinction, and only rarely, real mediocrity. A reading of the whole number conveys very much the impression given by an afternoon spent in "good talk"--if such an afternoon were possible--with a group of active and well-informed undergraduates of no type and confined to no one set of ideas. Perhaps here is a step toward the representative magazine we talk so much about...
...bank balance will result from the football game November 22. That economy is necessary, that foolish expenditure is unjustifiable, is obvious Undergraduates in the nature of events must be penalized for the war. Competition with Yale, however, is an immense asset in increasing the popularity of any sport. Money spent wisely to provide such contests for minor teams will do more than any other action to increase the general participation in organized athletics...