Word: spare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...less complaint has been made relative to the coaching of the second eight of the 'Varsity. It is urged that they do not receive enough attention, and are dependent upon chance coaches. Now the facts in this case are these, that Captain Bancroft has coached them whenever he could spare the time, and when he has been prevented from doing this, other members of the first eight have taken his place. It seems as if the men who are now rowing in the University Crew ought to know enough about pulling an oar to coach the second eight and coach...
...their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which no man is admitted whose average is n't over 85 per cent, and whose members think they know more than any instructor in college, and spend their spare hours in reading the classics or philosophy for amusement; and an infinite number of sets which have no distinguishing characteristics at all, composed of men whom fellowship at school or mere chance has thrown together, and who are not qualified for any of the three main cliques, either in manners, muscle...
...that the Captain of the 'Varsity will be with us this year, and will take his old thwart in the boat. To '82 we are looking with interest and expectancy. '82! The very figures warn us of our increasing baldness and our fast-falling gray hairs. May the Fates spare us long enough to see the Freshmen well started on the road to a "liberal education," and our own hopes realized in that tangible but often mystical thing, a degree...
...half past eleven o'clock. Then will follow the Oration, the Ode, and the Ivy Oration. There will be dancing in Memorial Hall from two o'clock until five, and at half past four the exercises at the Tree will begin. Spreads and teas will probably occupy the spare hours, and in the evening Memorial Hall will be opened for dancing from eight until eleven. Every Senior is entitled to twenty tickets to the Yard, seven to the Tree, six to Memorial Hall (to admit one gentleman and two ladies), and five to Sanders Theatre. Tickets are now ready...
...strongly the advisability of buying these tickets, on which the Nine depend to a great extent for their resources. Unless a sufficient number of them can be disposed of among ourselves, the Nine will be obliged to have recourse to the unpleasant duty of asking for subscriptions. Let us spare them the trouble and ourselves the torture...