Word: gained
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examinations are closing there are probably left on many shelves a large assortment of text-books that will never gain be used. Here, out of sheer inertia, they are allowed to accumulate, or taken for a trifling sum to a second-hand book-store; yet could their owners realize the value of them for the educational work carried on by members of the University, they would perhaps be willing by this slight sacrifice or display of energy to assist the work to which others are giving so much of their time. There is at this time particular need...
...money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the College organization, or from any permanent amateur association of which he was at the time a member, the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic...
Half a mile from the finish the order of the crews was about the same except that the first Newell had gained a little on the others. From here on to the finish the two first crews spurted continually but neither could gain much on the second Newell. The first Weld gained a little on the first Newell but could not hold the spurt long enough. All the men were in good condition at the finish and rowed back to their clubs immediately...
...Princeton catalogue for 1900-01 shows a total enrollment of 1,277 students, a gain of eighty-three over last year. The gifts received from August 1, 1899, to July 31, 2900, amount...
...interested in the forms of public discourse, for intercollegiate debating offers just that idea of tussle, wrestle and fight which appeal to a youth's imagination. The great advantage in this careful study of rebuttal is, not that a youth learns to think thoroughly and independently, though he does gain this power through it, but that be come by to realize that in almost all questions of the day the other man has nearly as good a right to his opinion as he has to his. Recognition of this facts means broad-mindedness and fairness in discussion. Just here...