Word: spare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them for the running and standing high jump and putting the shot. But the boxing, which has always been a special feature of the games, will be more than interesting from the fact that so many prominent athletes of the college have been giving a good share of their spare time for the past two months in getting ready for the events...
...spare time, therefore, of the undergraduates may be fully taken up, and it seems to be a fact that the students as a class are improving these opportunities much more than has been usual in past years...
...circulation, college columns cannot carry them; the columns of the magazines are open to them, and it is a pity that the entire public should not through these columns get the benefit of them. Surely there is enough thought among the students to fill our college papers, and to spare...
...theses which were "sprung" uponsome of us immediately after mid-years, college work now presses very lightly upon us. It sat thus lightly on our shoulders at the beginning of the fall term; but the settlement of ourselves and our winter's work claimed much of our spare time. Then came the Christmas duties and the mid-year's grind. Now, once more we have a breathing spell before the plunge into work for the finals, and, in the case of some, into the rush of Class Day and Commencement Day. And now in this period of rest and quiet...
...denies that skating is one of the most beneficial of out-door sports, and many men who cannot spare the time to go as far as Fresh Pond, only to find that there is little or no clear ice, under the new regime would spend much more time out of doors, whereby the general health of the college would be greatly improved...