Word: gain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...annual catalogue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has appeared. The entire faculty now numbers 119 professors and instructors, which gives an instructor to every ten students. The register of students is 1187, a gain of four over last year. Of this number 189 are seniors, 189 juniors, 197 sophomores, 272 freshmen, and 336 special students. The senior class is the largest in the history of the school. The Lowell School of Design is also increasing and now numbers 61 students. The alumni of the Institute number...
...yards run Harvard, although having several entries, was unable to gain a place...
That the University is steadily growing is shown nowhere more clearly than in the increased membership of the freshman class this year. Last year's class numbered 399, while the catalogue this year shows a freshman class numbering 462, a gain of 63 over last year. This number does not include members of the Lawrence Scientific School, whose freshman class numbers 106, fifteen more than last year. In the membership of the College freshman class, Massachusetts is most largely represented, having a total of 277 men. Of these, 183 come from cities and towns within a radius of ten miles...
...relief to find Whitneys definition of an amateur accurately stated, and to feel that one can honestly differ with him and still consistently advocate purity in athletics. He says an amateur is one who plays purely for love of the sport; a professional, one who plays in part for gain. This, as has so often been said, confines amateurism to the wealthy, and makes 'athletics' simply a pastime of the rich. Undoubtedly from his standpoint Whitney is right and fair in his anthems; but it is also right and fair to admit the existence of another standpoint...