Word: profit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need to declare what an impetus a large collection of books must give to the intellectual life of any institution of learning. It is enough to say that whoever neglects to use these books gets from his course in college only a small portion of the profit that he might get. A certain member of a class now graduated once boasted that he had never taken a book from the Harvard library, although he had roomed four years in Weld. Such a boast is not one that many of us would care to make, and it is certainly...
...probably at all colleges, a spirit of indifference for general excellence. Men come to college to study, and perhaps do study most faithfully, but if their one aim is to make themselves learned, then their courses at college are not thorough successes. Every man should seek both to bring profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument for the establishment of what we may call intellectual societies, societies devoted to study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast aside the element...
...club. Eighty-eight has set at least one good example to her predecessors in initiating a custom of supporting a freshman glee club and we trust that eighty-nine will not be backward in helping to make the custom initiated, a custom established. Freshman glee clubs are sources of profit and pleasure to their classes and to the college; of profit because, as in the case of eighty-nine's glee club, they are able to assist in defraying the expenses of an exceedingly expensive year, and because also they bring out men who in case of need can fill...
...simplest method of separating the gold from the earth was soon superseded by the "cradle." The requiring men to work together occasioned the system of "partnership" which has become so celebrated in song and story. Some lonely miners made some profit by using a knife in cutting the gold from the crevices of rock where the water of the brooks had washed it. This crevice-mining afforded a very precarious living, and these solitary miners became very dangerous members of society. Very few Indians were hired by the miners. The Brooks party of Eastermens on the way to the mining...
...graduation from college the mind rests easily and can ill afford to be neglected, and that if no immediate activity of mind, in study for a profession, or in teaching, or in business, is looked forward to, it is far better and it will promote profit and pleasure, present and future, to adopt some definite and of course some interesting line of study...