Word: gained
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...what is evidently sympathetic and admiring appreciation, the position of President Eliot among American educators. his character as a man, his early career, his work as president of Harvard, and finally, his opinions and expressions on some present educational, social and religious problems. One who reads this article will gain new understanding of the far-reaching and enduring service to Harvard and the general cause of education which has given President Eliot rank with Horace Mann as one of the two greatest educators America has produced...
...School for the past year deals chiefly with the effect of increased admission requirements upon the attendance at the School. The decrease of attendance which was expected to follow the somewhat rapid annual addition to entrance examinations has not come about. On the contrary, in the present year the gain in registration has exceeded that of any year since...
...number of preliminary candidates increased substantially. The year 1899 was a year of victory; but no increase in the number of preliminary candidates took place. The column headed Final Candidates exhibits a similar result -- declining fortune for Harvard is followed twice by small losses and thrice by good gains, and rising fortune is followed once by a small loss, twice by small gains, and once by a large gain. The last four columns of the table permit a comparison between the entering classes at Harvard and those at Yale. In 1893 defeats and victories were even, and in the following...
...standards of life which He set up. It can be yet more powerfully affected by the atmosphere which He created. In certain companionships, questionable thoughts become impossible. In the atmosphere of Jesus Christ much of our lives with which we are now contented seems worse than despicable, and we gain new visions of what is noble and lasting...
...effectively for temperance in this country today are not the laws, not the temperance societies, but the railroads and great industries, by putting a premium on temperate men for employees. As long as all the passions of men can be exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts to throw all liquor dealing and traffic into a monopoly so that fewer attractions to drink would be offered, and it was defeated...