Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true that in questions of this kind, careful consideration should be given to a balance of interests,--of good against bad, of gain against loss. Often-times it happens that existing abuses are preferable to other evils of a more dangerous and destructive tendency. But in the case of supervised study, one has to reckon with a quite variable and therefore indeterminable quantity, namely, human nature. Will the average student study more and better under pressure of compulsion or of his own accord? In wartime, perhaps, no chance could be taken as to the probable outcome of this arrangement...
...assemblage of guns upon which to work in training men for the field artillery. Also the Yale Naval Unit has received two power driven boats and two schooners, each accommodating about 50 men, so that it will be possible to make week-end cruises on which the men may gain practical experience in navigation...
...gain over last year's enrolment...
...Liberty Loan campaign is an unfortunate coincidence, but not harmful to either. If a person has the money for the former he surely has enough also to contribute to the latter. Those who cannot buy a bond, however, ought surely to make some small sacrifice in order to gain the benefits of a capable Y. M. C. A. For the sake of Phillips Brooks House, and for the improvement of the S. A. T. C. contribute your share...
...whose task it is to make the air an uncomfortable place for German flyers. He has made a good start toward a glorious career, and the CRIMSON wishes him the best of luck in future encounters with the Hun. It is men like him upon whom we rely to gain the aerial supremacy so badly needed on the Western Front...