Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classes. There was Mencken and Brown and a ball game with more errors from eating peanuts than otherwise--also a Crime column which provoked someone to remark rather caustically, "So the Crimson now goes in for the 'say dearie' stuff." Which last completely floored me, since I had spent weeks of patient research in hunting down that particular epistle and expected to get at least the commendation of the English Department. I didn't get anything but seven days in Connecticut with a senior who had generals, a very bad disease, and a dog which had--well, it just loved...
...Grand Canyon, R. Milton Fulle, tall blond Princeton senior, spent his Christmas vacation on a self-directed geology trip; discovered and photographed what his professors believe to be the four-inch footprints of an ancestor of modern frogs and salamanders, one of earth's first vertebrates...
...carry food. Her fingers would bend until they lay flat on the back of her hand. She had two marmosets which she fondled like children, and indeed they bore a noticeable resemblance to her; they would sit in her lap, gazing with sad eyes into her underslung face. She spent her spare time crocheting, but she read widely and spoke four* languages. Cultivated people were astonished when they talked with...
...weeks ago questionnaires were sent to the students, all of whom were required not only to answer a long series of questions, but also to give the university authorities information dealing with such matters as how long they spent at meals and in bed, the amounts of their allowances, earnings, the income of their families, and why they wanted to go to college. In addition, they were required to keep a time chart for a week, showing in detail their activities for every hour of the day and night from April...
Organized athletics came next in importance, with not only major and minor sports, but the time spent in athletic management or in competing for athletic management. The "recreation and leisure" section included exercise and sports such as golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether...