Word: squander
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that he should be led to dispose of them recklessly rather than that they should be unused. If a less number of yard tickets were allowed to each senior, and if each extra ticket purchased should be placed at a higher price, there would be far less occasion to squander the tickets issued, and the character of those admitted to our evening festivities would be distinctly of a less questionable type. So simple a remedy ought not to be neglected, when the need of it is so great. If the class day committee of the present year make the first...
...only represents a certain "set" at Harvard. This is a fault common to most college books. An outsider is led to believe that Harvard is merely a loafing place for a number of "fast" young men possessed of plenty of money and time and with nothing to do but squander both. It is undoubtedly true that such a set does exist at Harvard, as well as at other large colleges, however much we may attempt to deny the fact, and of the life of this class of students Guerndale gives a very fair and piquant account. The various scenes...