Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This would be an addition to the club life and a great compensating gain to the general tables in that their number would be reduced, and every man could go to his own table, without the unnecessary delay of procuring a check and also finding the table where he expected to meet his friends entirely occupied by strangers...
...encroachment on the original club tables. That they should now, though in a modified form, be extended over the entire hall, does not seem to be demanded by justice other than in the abstract. So radical a change involves the destruction of the present club life without any compensating gain to the general tables. It does not seem justified by the necessities of the situation...
...manaeuvres to secure this advantage make the race indefinitely late. There is no profit in this. It is not to the advantage of any crew to make the race late, but simply to be later than the others. As fair a chance is given for ingenuity to gain an advantage if the race is set for five and rowed at five, as if the race is set for five and rowed at six; only if one captain is tardy, he forces all the rest to be tardy also...
...school has been in progress during the past ten years and is still continuing at a steady rate. The increase in the current year is, indeed, greater than in any preceding year except 1891-92. It is to be added that no deterioration of quality accompanies the gain of numbers. On the contrary, the school has never contained so large a proportion of able and ambitious students as at the present time...
...friends while acquiring the elements of a liberal education; they are men who have already gone through the ordinary period of a costly education, and they have in many cases, relinquished salaried positions in order to come to the school. Their motive in coming is not that they may gain entrance to a lucrative profession; they are already qualified to do good service in their chosen field, but they are willing to make considerable sacrifices in order that they may do better service, and help to raise the tone of instuction and study throughout the country...