Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Immigrants are a gain to the United States. 1. They bring wealth: N. A. Review pp. 350-351; 2. They add to productive power of country: Westminister Review Oct., '88; Lalor Vol. II p. '89; Morgan's speech, Cong. Record...
...They do not injure American Institutions. (1). Worst classes are excluded by present laws: St. at Large XXIV p. 414; Cong. Rec. XXII pp. 1326-1328. (2.) Those allowed to land become in time thoroughly Americanized. (3). Mixture of races a gain to civilization: N. A. Review...
...carried on under the supervision of a regularly appointed officer of instruction, and with proper tests of the industry and proficiency of the students." The undoubted advantages of some features of the plan adopted by the new Chicago University, are thus attained at Harvard also. This is a distinct gain, made here without disturbing the old method of university life. For it is undoubtedly true, as President Eliot says, "that six weeks of assiduous application to one subject for eight hours a day enables an earnest student to make an extraordinary progress in a new language or a new science...
Last Monday evening, in Union Hall, Cambridgeport, as was reported in your columns, a concert was given by the University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs for the benefit of the Prospect Progressive Union. The concert was a decided success from every point of view. Our financial gain will be of the greatest assistance but we value still more something else. That the members of these clubs should volunteer their services and be willing to give special time to rehearsals and to the concert in the midst of the mid-year examinations, proves an interest on their part...
Some changes were made in the accounts after July 31. On Oct. 26, 1891, it was voted to transfer the sum of $23,341.97, the net gain from sales of bonds at a profit, formerly credited to the account of Railroad Bond Premiums, to a new account to be called "Gains and Losses for General Investments." It was also voted, at this same meeting of the Corporation, to charge off to this new account $4,751.13, the sum standing to the debit of the account of Unimproved Lands in Cambridge...