Word: spare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addition to a talk on choosing a profession, a few words could be added, with good effect; as to what were the best special schools in the country; how they were managed; and what a man could expect to get from them. If President Eliot can spare the time for such a lecture to the senior class he may be sure that every word will be appreciated...
...call for words for the Baccalaureate Hymn to be sung on Sunday afternoon, June 14. The hymn for which the words are to be written will be selected from the chapel hymn-book. Four stanzas are required, and common or long metre preferred. Every senior who can spare the time is urged...
...faculty, with the president and treasurer, are the only persons in the governing boards who are connected professionally with the college. The overseers-and the corporation too-devote to its interests only such time as they can spare from other pursuits. Of course they necessarily receive all their information at second hand. These two things constitute-as they themselves frankly admit-their weakness. This weakness should be removed, unless the college is to be ruled in the future as its charter causes it to be ruled at present, namely by a single man, the president, acting through a body...
...class is still expecting the nine to defeat Yale; let them spare us a disappointment...
...many personal associations I have had with this old settler. If it had but a tongue as serviceable as its stout old legs, what a tale it could tell. To me, the first recollection that it brings is of my grandfather. How well I remember the tall, spare old gentleman, as he sat in one corner of it reading the morning paper and glancing up over his spectacles every moment or so to see that young rascal was not pulling the fire out into the middle of the room. At home the old sofa stood beneath a window...