Word: spare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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McLaughlin stole second directly and Hann saved the game from going extra innings by a slashing drive to left, bringing in McLaughlin with plenty of time to spare...
...that the requirements for entrance are well adapted to the curricula of the schools at which men prepare. It is true, however, that this average is a mean of two extremes, about which the individual cases tend to group themselves. Men are liable to enter either with points to spare or with conditions; and a subject for discussion lies in the fact that the latter class is composed almost wholly of students who come from public schools which plan their programs of study without reference to Harvard. These conditions have given rise to the criticism that Harvard is losing...
...weak link in the chain was not the Council per se, but its composition. The members were the "most prominent men in College," meaning that they already had their hands so full of work that they could not spare the time and thought that membership in the Council should involve. Their offense is palliated by the fact that it was the inevitable consequence of the system in vogue here of concentrating the entire student administrative work of the College on too few shoulders...
...does not appear that this prohibition should be extended, as it now it, to intramural sports. In the first instance, the rule acts as a strong incentive to better academic work, and is again justified because athletics often take more time than a man on probation can afford to spare from his studies. To men capable of playing on the major teams the fear of probation is a powerful stimulus; for men debarred on account of their studies not only miss any quantity of glory, but are not generally respected, in spite of the remark made by a contributor...
...very nature, be made compulsory, it would naturally fail to reach the entire student body. There are two methods, however, by which all students could be reached,--through English A, or by an entrance test in reading. The former method seems perhaps the more feasible, and there is considerable spare time in the recitations in English A, which might very properly be devoted to practice in reading. But whether through a special course, by an entrance requirement, or through English A, some facility in reading should be demanded of every student before graduation. No man can be called well educated...