Word: spent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thousand dollars have just been given to President Porter, of Union College, to be spent in the completion of Alumni and Memorial Hall...
...spent part of my spring vacation on the sea-shore, at my uncle's. It was cold and bleak; but I had quite a jolly time, because, you see, I've got a lot of cousins who live there, and I was the only male approaching their age for ten miles. Yes, I had a beautiful time. I used to talk philosophy to nineteen, and nonsense to twelve, and romance to sixteen; you see they acted as foils to each other, and when I was a little tired of one I would fall back on another, and then there were...
Term-bills did not meet with prompt payment on all occasions; the money forwarded by the fond parent "was often spent on wine parties, gambling, or immoralities still worse, and in defiance of the law," and as the Athenians had not discovered the device of requiring a bond, the bursars of those days threatened in vain...
HENCEFORTH the names of students, as they appear on the rank-list, will be divided into groups; each group containing those whose ranks range between certain per cents. The object of this is to avoid the excessive and useless time usually spent in getting up technicalities for the sake of one or two per cent more...
...that we think the majority of experienced, fair-minded men would unite in disapproving such a course. The plan of college assistance is, as we understand it, to smooth the rugged path of the poor but promising student, so that that part of his energy which would otherwise be spent in overcoming the difficulties of the journey to Parnassus may be devoted to intellectual effort; and, up to a certain point, everything which relieves the mind of the strain of over-exertion and makes life cheerful is so much help to the hard worker. Shut off from society, compelled...