Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman class. The Freshman eleven, facing Andover in its opening game, is the first official contribution of the entering class to the University. In the long run this contribution will be little more then the clink of a coin in a bucket. But there is a gain from in giving, and if the gift is small, the gain may be great...
...basketball teams to teaching English to foreigners. The Speakers Bureau and the Deputation Committee furnish students to speak at preparaotry schools, churches, and various and sundry kinds of meetings and dinners. Thus the student's point of view is presented to the community at large, and the students themselves gain valuable experience. Students of limited means find the Text Book Loan Library of material assistance. Law books and books used in undergraduate courses may be taken out and used all year for a nominal consideration. The clothing drives conducted by the Social Service Committee furnish many articles of wearing apparel...
...that the electorate has been agitated to a state of anticipation, if not of excitement, by the prospective election of the 31st President, how might shrewd crooks make gain without accepting direct graft...
...maintained that modern exhaustive analysis has brought the game to the point at which one of his shrewdness can draw every game he plays, that theoretically to gain a victory one must dare an unsound combination. If, sufficiently intricate, its weakness fails to be detected, the game is won. Alternative is defeat. Thus less imaginative plodders can take advantage of more brilliant players' hazardous conceptions...
Tariff: 100% high tariff doctrine with this original addition: "Other countries gain nothing if the high standards of America are sunk and if we are prevented from building a civilization which sets the level of hope for the entire world...