Word: profit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that in the first case the college is working in behalf of the gas companies, and in the second, in behalf of the students. And if, as is probable, the college does-not obtain as much as five per cent. on their investments, there would be an actual profit in the matter...
Beside instruction in Agriculture, there are courses in Botany, Chemistry, and Applied Zoology - everything in connection with farming which is made a science of itself. No examinations are required for admission; but the student must show his ability to profit by the instruction. The tuition is the same as at the college, namely, $150 per annum...
...that we learn of the revocation of the Harvard faculty's decrees forbidding foot-ball. This course was taken, it seems, in response to a popular feeling among the students and professors, that the game as played under the revised rules, is one that can be indulged in with profit and pleasure. We are glad that the games played this fall have shown that it is something mere than an exhibition of brute strength and inordinate roughness. We are further pleased that the fact has been recognized that Yale does not depend on weight for the make...
...class contests, will prove to have been a valuable period of recuperation when the crimson is again brought to face her old opponents on the field. We have by this rest been enabled to bring more players into active competition than by any other means, and will surely profit by it. The 'Varsity eleven of next season promises to be exceptionally powerful and ought to receive the earnest support of the entire university...
...that our space has not allowed us to publish them all. We hope that the students of the college will never hesitate to use our columns either for contradicting our opinions or for setting up opinions of their own. These debates on paper may be conducted with interest and profit...