Word: profit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what next? Where may the newly graduated alumnus occupy, and at the same time improve himself? After graduation there is a great deal of time left in the lives of most men which must be filled up in some way by all, and with an idea to pecuniary profit at least by most. How shall this be done...
...less material for discussion, and student government at times of great rejoicing will also be a fruitful theme. If, however, after having disposed of the pressing demands of these two, the conference becomes subject to ennui, there is another field of labor to which the members can turn with profit. This field is none other than the old marking system now in vogue, and the evils of cramming and cribbing that are inseparably connected with it. A comparison of the different methods for marking used in American colleges and a discussion of the merits of each would be of great...
...former years. The preparatory schools this year have sent up several men of high local reputation who won their honors in contests against men now their classmates. The success exhibited in former years in the proper combination of players thus related, may well serve as an example for the profit of the present freshman class. The captain of the team has long been well known as a skilled and enthusiastic foot-ball player, and, if he is only granted the proper support, will do everything in his power to keep alive the interest in foot-ball at Harvard this fall...
...they become seniors, to ask rooms for themselves with better consciences. Certain it is that, as seniors, they will have need of extra rooms for the entertainment of their friends and if now they help to keep up the old custom, they will find themselves later more likely to profit...
...instantaneous process, and so clearly brought out to the minutest detail, that fair and accurate criticism of style has been rendered possible. Of course, in the case of the class crews, such trouble is scarcely worth the while, but it seems to us that the university might profit to no small extent by acting on the suggestion. Who can tell how far an expedient of this sort might help us in winning a victory...