Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Square is enclosed Ed Note), that is making Harvard more and more a joke. The student involved being a Senior increases the offense. No true Harvard man (and I include members of the various teams, crews, etc., etc.) will go out of his way an inch to gain even excusable publicity that is individual personal publicity...
Aside from these intangible values which represent clear, educational gain, the instruction afforded abroad is roughly equivalent to that in the United States. Certainly, it is not necessary that the man appointed drop behind his class at Harvard. And on his return he, unlike older men winning travelling scholarships, may have an inside opportunity to influence the college community. Thus, by a natural seepage of ideas might the cause of international amity be furthered. It seems safe to say that such undergraduate fellowships would help in making general student opinion tolerant, as well as aiding the selected man to become...
...total population gain in 1925 was slightly larger than the average for the last 17 years, but materially less than that of 1923, when the large amount of immigration contributed to a population increase of 1,996,000, as in 1909, when, for the same cause, the population growth...
Since only 4,000,000 ballots were needed to cause the referendum to be held, its protagonists are jubilant. None the less they must roll up 20,000,000 ballots to gain the final victory...
...child's right to dominance and, freed from the responsibility of such prestige, goes his way rejoining. So his lectures are but marginal notes on his text, modern and succinct comments by a scholar and gentleman upon a masterpiece of literatures. And Seniors attend his lectures for the gain to be derived from his personality and his knowledge...