Word: profit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornell Era says of the association, "Besides holding its annual conventions, which are proving to be occasions of much interest and profit, the association desires and hopes to establish at an early date a Modern Language Journal, in which shall be centred the energies which are now divided among a variety of periodicals of a more general character. Embracing as the association does in its membership a majority of the prominent educators in modern languages in all parts of the country, it is believed that such a journal would command an able and intelligent support, and exert a powerful influence...
...regret to see that no arrangements have been made by the powers that be for lectures in Political Economy, except for those on Free Trade and Protection. Now, last year, students taking Political Economy, and especially members of the elementary course, Political Economy 1, derived great pleasure and profit from the lectures given under the auspices of the Finance Club. The lecture by Mr. Edward Atkinson on the subject, "What makes the Rate of Wages," and that by Mr. Gamaliel Bradford, on "Political Economy as a College Study," were especially interesting and valuable to the large number of beginners...
...note-making. When men read, they should put down their thoughts, not on a blank sheet of paper-for that would be selfish-but on the pages of the books that they are reading. Then and then only may all the world read the briliant and witty notes, and profit by them. The possibilities, even at present, for the publication of the book proposed are very great, for the field is already very large. We wish, therefore, that the book might be published, for then the annotators, who doubtless expect some day to be great men, could see how brilliant...
...elsewhere, or, if to be found at all, only after toilsome research. If the disagreeableness of note-taking were the only drawback, we would have little to complain of; but the great trouble is that while industriously taking down some important portion of thought, and are henceforth unable to profit by the instructor's remarks. If, now, there were in our curriculum a voluntary course in stenography, we might be able to acquire this very useful accomplishment of writing in shorthand, without being obliged to go to the great expense and trouble of getting instruction from private teachers...
...view that the performance of the play was decided on. An assignment of the parts in the customary manner, however, would defeat this aim. A few men would monopolize the important roles, and the rest would have so little to do that their parts would be of but little profit to them. By the plan of distribution that is adopted, this objection is as far as possible done away with. The strongest cast is not brought out in this way, but the whole club shares the benefit of acting. This arrangement, by the way, shows the absurdity of some...