Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...apparent gain in the whole University to date...
...should he?" replied the other. "He has nothing to gain...
Just how prevalent the spirit implied in that answer is, we do not know. If it is common to a considerable number of men, then there is something about our undergraduate institutions that is all wrong; something that needs to be well remodelled. If prospect of personal gain alone will make a man undergo the hard work of training for football, for baseball or for rowing, then it should be made impossible for a man to obtain the greater, the more coveted honors until well toward the close of his college career...
...unwilling, however to believe that the question "What has he to gain?" is one that many men would think of asking. Fortunately we have many athletes of whose loyalty and devotion there can be no question...
...Heretofore at Harvard the kind of philanthropic work, which it was the purpose of the meeting to further, had been carried on entirely by the religious societies and their members, - not acting in cooperation, but individually. The new movement was intended to combine all the societies, that they might gain strength from union, and also to bring into the work other men who were not members of any religious organization, but were ready to help in the common charity. The reason that brought men of different creeds and doctrines together to work side by side lay in the fact that...