Word: gain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inadequate police arrangements at Jarvis at every ball game. The inordinate longing of the average mucker to "steal in" never ceases, and he is eager to put his skill in this line into operation at every opportunity. The result is that a score or so of the Cambridge youth gain access to the grounds every afternoon that the nine plays. A little more care ought to be exercised until the nine gets on Holmes. A couple more policemen would obviate the difficulty, and the cost would be but a slight advance on that now paid...
...should build and manage our own ships exclusively.- (1) Because only in so doing can we gain the whole profit of our carrying trade: "Shall Americans build ships?" No. Am. Review, May, 1881, pp. 473-4; "American Shipping Interests," (pamphlet), pp. 6, 44, 48-51.- (2) Because, by so doing, we employ American labor, and use American materials: "American Shipping Interests," (pam.), p. 20.- (3) Because, in the long run, we can build as cheaply at home as we can buy or build abroad: John Roach, speech before Boston Board of Trade (pam); No. Am. Review...
...years, while a man to enter Harvard must remain another year, although there are a number of cases where men by dint of assiduous application have passed the necessary examinations at the end of the Middle year-that is, a three years residence. Thus many men in order to gain a class go to other colleges solely on this account; and not, as it has been stated with utter falsity, that Harvard has lost its prestige in the eyes of the faculty and students of the Academy. From present favorable indications the tide promises to turn again toward Cambridge...
...proper shelf than to leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what they gain in the one instance they lose in the other. If every man would take the little trouble required to replace a book, all the users of the reading room would be naturally benefited. This will never come about till the sentiment among the readers is strong enough to make anyone...
...which alone the impression of form and color can be conveyed. The present modes of instruction at Harvard may help a student to talk about art, but fails to give him a definite understanding of the subject. With a picture or series of pictures before him, the student may gain in a few minutes a better idea of the principles of art than the readings of columns can convey; if the two methods of reading and practical study of illustration are combined, rapid advance is possible. The library of the University is poverty striken as far as classical and contemporary...