Word: spare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...important part in our college course, and the action of the authorities in offering us such advantages is thoroughly appreciated. We wish, however, that our own professors would do something in this way for us, as well as for other colleges and for the public. Many students who cannot spare time to go into Boston would gladly attend lectures if given here, and we hope that Professor Fiske will be able to repeat in Cambridge the course of lectures which have already proved so interesting to audiences elsewhere...
...work outside are greatly inconvenienced. Students should not be forced to work in the Library; there are many opportunities for working in one's own room, when going over to Gore Hall would be absurd. Again, many of the reserved books are such as one reads in spare moments in the evening; if a book can be taken out for a length of time there are a hundred chances to finish it. It is often impossible to know in the afternoon whether one will want a book in the evening; and furthermore, it is a great nuisance to take...
...noticed it, and as I have no doubt but that you have a good deal of spare time, I'm going to ask you to write up a little thesis - say about a hundred pages - for next Tuesday...
...instructors should aim at when making out a paper, and not to make one feel at the end of the hour that he had done himself injustice, whereas, if he had had a little more time, he could have given more careful answers, and had a few minutes to spare for the revision of his work...
...person George W. Brown was strikingly handsome. Tall, spare, one shoulder gracefully bent below the other, expressionless gray-blue eyes, and a chin receding in tender undulations, - such was he at ten years...