Word: gain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great tendency among the students here at Harvard, to look with a certain amount of derision and contempt upon the man who is neither going to take up one of the regular professions, nor enter business, but intends to pursue a specialty which affords absolutely no chance for material gain. The cry of "dillettanteism" immediately arises. It cannot be denied that "dillettanteism" is becoming a very popular euphemism for doing absolutely nothing in life. But it is a simple matter to point out that a man who is well up in literary work can readily bring honor to the name...
...public good-will and respect. Such institutions "care naught for the people, and the people care naught for them." But our American colleges and universities have reached a point of liberalism which may justly place them above those of the old world. By their liberality to the people they gain a well deserved respect. The people see the light that the colleges do not conceal, as of old, but let shine where it will. In no better way, as the Varsity suggests, can these happy relations between colleges and people be sustained than by courses of lectures, open...
...question of intellect versus affection has been annoying the young ladies of Oberlin to such a degree that they have been holding lively debates over it in a meeting of one of the Oberlin literary societies. That such a subject should gain prominence at Oberlin, and not only at Oberlin, but among the fairer students of Oberlin, is seriously significant. The last place where intellect, as it reaches higher spheres, would be expected to disregard affection is at a co-educational institution. Indeed, the great champions of co-education find herein one of their foremost arguments; with the young...
...Baird in Cyclist and Athlete says that more time is wasted by athletes in "rubbing down" than will be made up by any gain made...
There the officers of instruction have increased 60 per cent., here 112 per cent. In that very important matter, "the sinews of war" we have made a gain of more than 100 per cent. to Yale's 75. In the light of these statistics, who can wonder at the desire of the Yale alumni to adopt a more liberal scheme of education and thus make a more rapid intellectual development force greater material prosperity...