Word: spent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second visit to Memorial Hall. My first was made in the early summer, when I spent those three days of agony there, - those days when the tables were laid, hour after hour, with a never-failing supply of blue-books...
...writer, I can only refer him for a remedy to an M. D. The Library fund is certainly not expended in buying "trashy French novels." The only possible source from which your author can have originated such an idea is that a portion of one bequest has been spent in buying some of the best new French novels; the rest of the fund, as I have just learned by inquiring at the Library, having been spent on standard authors. I do not know what peculiar tastes your writer may have, but I think I can say that anybody of ordinary...
...employed as follows: $4,800 will be divided among sixteen scholarships, four in each class, to be known as Robert Troup Paine Scholarships. $1,500 to be devoted to prizes for essays on various subjects, and the remainder ($1,700) is to go to the Library, - $800 to be spent in buying books and $900 to be set aside as an accumulating fund...
...Charles River Bridge, as seen from the "last car," was probably not aware that Mr. Longfellow spent his college days at Bowdoin and not at Harvard...
...impossible to spend so much time and do justice to other subjects; but this is a very feeble excuse; for if one were only to take account of the time he wastes each day, it would be found to be many times more than the one hour spent profitably in the manner described. It is another common excuse that there is no use in hearing Homer and Virgil over again when they were learned so thoroughly before coming to college. But they were not then, we claim, understood; they were merely hurried through as so much task-work...