Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clubs have ever held. While the distance covered was not so great as on the western trip last year, the number of actual concerts which were given was only two less than that of the former trip. In addition, the saving of time which would otherwise have been spent in travelling from one city to the next permitted longer stopovers and was conducive to a greater enjoyment of the trip as a whole...
...twenty-fifth annual meeting of the American Economic Association will be held in Boston from December 27 to 31. Five other important economic, sociological and historical societies will held their meetings in conjunction with the Economic Society. The first three days of the conference will be spent in Boston, the meetings to be held at the Institute of Technology, the Copley-Plaza Hotel and Huntington Hall. On the morning of December 30 the Association will hold a meeting in New Lecture Hall, discussing the subject of banking reform. Professor O. M. W. Sprague, of the Department of Economics, will...
...papers displayed some imposing sums as spent each year for obvious luxuries. The criticism attempts to explain away the suggested significance of the figures by the simple process of division; dividing the total sums spent by the number of men registered and concluding therefrom that the supposed expenditure for luxuries is, after all, but small for each individual, and explaining that the totals were obtained by multiplying the estimated expenditure of certain men by the number of men registered...
This explanation discloses the weakness already suggested. The computers, judging others by themselves, by that method found an imposing total spent for luxuries, but regarded the individual basis as moderate. We must remember, however, that a great many of the Harvard men who make up the total number of registered students are self-supporting, in whole or in part. Most of these, certainly, do not spend ten to twelve dollars per week for board alone. Nor are they apt to spend appreciably, much less liberally, for the luxuries concerning which the discussion has centered. There is the further fact that...
...conclusion must be, therefore, that the original figures, as totals based on averages, are practically worthless, resting simply on the personal habits of the individual computers. What those habits are is, in itself, unimportant, but protest may justly be made against multiplying sums spent on account of such individual habits as a basis for publishing alleged total expenses of Harvard men. The totals obtained would, indeed, be very suggestive, were they supported by facts. What is worse, however, is that they by innuendo attribute to the student body as a whole habits of frivolity, luxury, indolence, and intemperance, for which...