Word: spent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Instances might be multiplied but each of us can probably remember some hours spent in attempts to get the information that might be, and ought to be, put in the elective pamphlet...
...college year any organization has, after the payment of all its debts, a surplus in excess of the amount allotted to it below, this excess shall be at the disposal of the committee. It shall, however, be spent on athletics...
Just because the rooms are few in number the oldest classmen should have the first right to them. In the old days, a Harvard senior could not graduate with a clear conscience unless he had roomed in Holworthy. Nowadays, he is lucky if his last hours are spent within sight of the old pile! Will you kindly ask the parietal committee, or whoever has our welfare in charge, to institute some graded system, by which the classes should draw for rooms in order of their seniority. What is left after they have what they want, could...
...school will open on July 6th at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, where a fortnight will be spent in introductory work and in short daily excursions. The remainder of the six weeks' session will be divided between the Connecticut Valley, the Hoosac Valley and vicinity, in northwestern Massachusetts, and the foothills of the Catskill mountains in eastern New York. Some central, characteristic point in each district, easily accessible by railroad, will be taken for headquarters and short excursions made from it. The plan of the school, so far as it can now be stated, is as follows...
August 11th to 16th, at or near North Adams, in charge of Mr. J. E. Wolff. This week will be spent in the study of the Taconic rocks and stratigraphy as found in the Greylock mountain mass, and of the metamorphic rocks of the Green mountains and their stratigraphy as exemplified by the structure and rocks of Hoosac mountain...