Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Central Music hall. The clubs will spend Sunday in Chicago, leaving that night for St. Louis. A concert will be given there on Monday night in Entertainment hall, in the Exposition building, followed by a reception at the home of W. D. Simmons, '90. The following day will be spent in St. Louis, and in the evening the clubs will be entertained at the home of E. O. Stannard, jr., '92. They leave St. Louis on New Year's morning for Indianapolis, where a concert will be given on New Year's night. The next morning they leave for Dayton...
...that their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties of court, engaged in private theatricals and devoted himself to literature, composing some parts of "Faust" and other noted works. On September 17, 1786, Goethe started for Italy where he spent two years in acquainting himself with Rome, the home of the Caesars. Returning from Italy, Goethe devoted himself to the natural sciences, and it is from this time on that the lives of these great poets, Goethe and Schiller go hand in hand. Schiller was born on November...
...Sternbergh, first year Law School, has left college for Colorado, He was a member of the class of '87, but spent two years in Europe before entering the Law School...
...labors. The agriculturist, the artisan and the professional man in general who is not engaged in teaching the youth, are accustomed to continuous toil for at least ten hours daily six days in the week. With the instructor it is quite different; about one third of the year is spent in rest or in ways not directly connected with instruction, and besides, when employed, his day is shorter than other laborers. With this as a basis, an argument is made which goes to prove the reasonableness of the great difference in the number of hours that the brain worker...
...investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work...