Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government and Economics, as one dealing in the actions of men rather than with their thoughts, has yielded to ascendancy in number of students to the Department of Modern Languages, which had held it up to the last six years. To be sure, the difference is small, but a gain of nearly 70 students for the latter department as compared to five for the former is enough to indicate a marked shift in the interests...
...months ago, it was stated that 60,000 of the 200,000 U. S. Protestant Churches had failed to gain one member during 1927 (TIME, Feb. 20). Last week The Christian Herald published the results of a census on U. S. church members; these proved that the total number of members added to the church in 1927 was 573,723; that the total number of U. S. church members...
Catholics gained most (183,889). Methodists, of 20 sorts, were second with a gain of 150,910. The order of increase in other denominations: Lutherans, Disciples of Christ, Baptists, Latter Day Saints, Oriental Catholics, Dunkards, United Brethren, Adventists. Presbyterians and Quakers lost more members than they gained...
...Putnam's object in establishing a fund for intercollegiate contests of a purely academic nature was twofold: to foster general interest in scholarship, and to enable the student to demonstrate his loyalty to his college through scholastic attainments. Desire to gain a place among the college's intellectual representatives might well stimulate the average undergraduate to scholastic endeavor, but it would scarcely serve as an added incentive to do well on the examination itself to any but the ten picked men if their names were announced before the event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student...
...swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short as the twenty six miles seem long, they gain added significance in the fact that this year's race was the criterion of choice for the Olympics. The race, indeed, is so influenced by this, by what it reenacts, and by the nationalities that run in it, that it is peculiarly suited to the Athens of America...