Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are Harvards beyond the plot which stands poised between the rotunda and Memorial Hall. Not the least of these is that very different plot, the Arnold Arboretum, upon which Professor Charles Spragne, Sargent spent sixty years of patient effort. And he made it not only a Mecca for students of botany but a place of beauty and a Boston institution. In working for his science and for Harvard he did also a service to the commonwealth...
...plan of workouts during the season includes comparatively little practice. Most of the time will be spent in playing informal games. In addition to the regular league games, there will be games with the Freshmen, the dormitory teams, and the second team...
...official source. There are undoubtedly many difficulties in the way of its application. President Hopkins has recognized them and it would serve no purpose to discuss them specifically until the full details of the Dartmouth program appear. Suffice it to say, first that Mr. Hopkins and his associates have spent many months on the formulation of the proposals published yesterday, second that good faith on the part of any college adopting so sweeping a reform is to be presumed and will obviate any such objection as that the college would make one team in practice a university team...
Four years ago, for the first time, I met Colonel Guy Goff, now United States Senator from West Virginia, It was on a train, and we spent some time together. The talk turned to reading, and from my bag I produced a copy of TIME, then little known. On leaving the train I left the copy with Colonel Goff and commended it to his interest. Meeting him again a. year ago, for the first time since our introduction, he immediately recalled me, "because, he said, I had brought to his attention a publication which had consistently retained his interest...
...Daily he spent hours with a Japanese sculptor, and later with a Japanese musician. To the one Paul Claudel tried to describe the strange forms and shapes that stir in his mind. To the other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...