Word: spent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...third bout of the light-weight wrestling was no more successful than the second, both men acting strictly on the defensive. After eight minutes spent with no result, the contestants were allowed to take the over-the-shoulder and round-the-waist grip, for the two remaining minutes. After some severe struggles, this resulted in a draw. The final bout was then deferred, because of the late hour, to the following Saturday...
...intention of the club is, not to settle in one evening matters of gravity over which gray-haired men have spent their lives, but to familiarize students who take some interest in current topics with the most able discussions bearing on those points...
...descent traced back to Adam, but only for a brief statement of the way in which and the place where the student's life has been passed. We hope that the members of the class will give a tolerably detailed account of the way in which they have spent their college life, the societies they have been members of, their connection with athletics, the rooms they have occupied, and, if space is left, we would suggest that every one should append to his life a list of the electives he has taken while in college...
...some young men do remain and take postgraduate courses, do they not? There is young X., who did not graduate till he was twenty-three, and then spent a year or so in travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course...
...Then, Mr. H., you are confessedly arguing from your own case. You don't deny that all time given to the development of your intellect is profitably spent...