Word: profit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present senior class at Bates College have realized $110 profit from the publication of the Bates Student during the past year...
...suggestion therefore naturally arises, if a course in French of this character proves so useful, why a similar course can not be established by the German department. There are fully as many men doubtless who would profit by such a course in German as there are who profit by the one in French. There is no course now taught which can take its place, and there seems to be every reason why such a course should be begun, and why, when begun, it should succeed...
...hopes in this matter, and therefore those of us who blindly grope, and have almost despaired of any such millennium, should without doubt do their utmost for the final abolition of these evil regulations by means of continual protest and energetic petition. The thought that a distant posterity will profit by our exertions, can fill us with a melancholy satisfaction...
...price is fixed too high for the general public can they complain if their audiences are small. It should be frankly admitted, I think, that there are many men who cannot afford the price asked to admit to a Glee Club concert. If the societies make a larger profit from high-priced tickets and small audiences than they would from low prices and large audiences, their course is very reasonable. But why cannot they try the experiment of tickets at 50 cents and enthusiastic audiences of 800, instead of $1 seats and critical audiences of 200 as at present...
...object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual defeat can be the only lot of the smaller colleges, we do not see what pleasure or profit they can gain from membership. The ideal aim of keeping alive inter-collegiate amity and good feeling is all very well and is undoubtedly one of the subsidiary objects of the league; but to claim this as its chief object is absurd. We hope our friends at Williams will...