Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Dartmouth played its first football game with the Cantabs on November 9, 1882, it spent the entire game inside its own 25 yard line while Harvard put across four goals and nineteen touchdowns. The next day the Boston Globe commented that 'Dartmouth might possibly be able to cope with the Boston Latin School...
...Henderso, captain of last year's championship Middlebury team, and Graham Taylor, veteran Harvard cross country and jump star, will serve as co-coaches during the coming season. The team will also be strengthened by the return to Cambridge of Bill Wasserman, who spent last year in the French Alps, sharpening up on technique...
...educators and architects have long been agreed on at least one point: the nation needs new schools. But, said ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week, "it is a sad-and little recognized-fact that the pitifully inadequate supply of taxpayer's dollars is, in most big U.S. cities, being spent for the wrong kind of schools." To show what it meant, the FORUM devoted its entire October issue to the U.S. school...
...Briar found her, she was an associate dean at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. In her three years at Sweet Briar, she held fast to her rule that "the administration of a college is the servant of great teaching." She herself taught a course in the philosophy of religion, spent her days wrestling with a shrinking budget and dictating letters "anyplace and anywhere, even under the dryer when I get there...
Where Protagonist Joseph Knecht fits into this is not as clear as it might be. He comes & goes between long essays on music, philosophy, theology, the Game and the Order. He was an orphan, was chosen for one of the elite schools, joined the Order, spent two years in China trying to incorporate Chinese thought into the Game, was sent on a sort of exchange scholarship to a Benedictine monastery, and at 37 became the youngest Magister Ludi in the history of the Order. After reaching the greatest height of the Order, he left it, and tried to return...