Word: expending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cannot too heartily approve the suggestion that the $200,000 of Mr. Hastings's bequest, that the College is required to expend upon a building, be devoted to one for the Fine Arts Department. This department, which is steadily increasing in importance, has hitherto been placed at the greatest disadvantage, as regards lecture-rooms and appliances. While this state of things is to be greatly improved when Sever is finished, an opportunity seems now to be offered for providing an excellent building for the collections of pictures, casts, models, &c., which the College should have. These collections cannot be obtained...
...remember how soon the velocipede fever died out in this country; but in England and France it had a different fate. First the driving-wheel was enlarged, and the rear wheel reduced, by which alterations not only greater speed was gained, but the rider was so placed as to expend his energy to the best advantage, viz. directly over, instead of behind the axis of power. The next step was to substitute iron and steel for wood, producing a machine of more elegant appearance and greater strength...
There is a pause before the catch, commencing with No. 6. In trying to get the hard catch, the crew, as was pointed out in the last Crimson, are apt to expend all their strength in banging the water at the beginning of the stroke, and then make a weak and slovenly finish. The firm grip on the water, instantly got on the full reach, should be followed clear through by a good, vigorous, even stroke. The hardest part of this stroke, unless the man makes a jerk in the middle, must be at the beginning, because there the greatest...
...memory of the sons of Harvard who perished in the war; but are they more honored in building a grand but useless pile, than in making their monument of some real benefit to the College? It were better to build a handsome granite shaft to their memory, and then expend the rest in founding scholarships, than to sink the whole fund in a useless Babel of bricks and mortar. This monument of Harvard's alumni is no more profaned by the daily presence of her students than by the crowd of curious strangers that will throng it at Commencement...
...great argument of those opposed to this system is, that the College has no right to compel a man to expend his money for boarding where he does not wish; but this, it strikes me, is not a very strong objection, inasmuch as we are compelled to use our money in numerous ways. Laws are necessary in every community for the good of the majority, and in making laws the good of the mass, and not the individual interest, must be consulted. It is for this reason that no one thinks of objecting to the law that all the citizens...