Word: profit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choice will be made. We hope that those who wish to enter college journalism will take advantage of these opportunities, assuring them that their labor will be repaid threefold, not only by the pleasure derived from one phase of college life, but by the not inconsiderable mental profit resulting...
...College with a considerable knowledge of Latin and Greek, derived from four or five years of preparatory study; while the men in the Freshman sections in German have no such foundation, and are all practically beginners. So, while we can readily perceive how the Latin and Greek sections profit materially by receiving a third of their instruction from a professor, yet we are by no means sure that the plan would work as well with beginners in German. One other point of the writer's we should touch upon, namely, increasing the number of men in a section. This must...
...considerable degree sensitive to music ought to have the opportunity of studying it. Those who attend the performance of the play will be obviously helped in their appreciation and enjoyment of it by careful study of the music; while such study cannot but be a source of pleasure and profit, even to those who do not witness the representation of the tragedy. The music consists of a prelude and six choruses, remarkable alike for their dramatic spirit and for their variety. The student of music will naturally find more of value in them than the ordinary listener will be likely...
WHEN the Greek play was first thought of, the chief consideration which induced the undergraduates to enter into its production with such enthusiasm was the fact that the student would profit by it. The public at large would be only amused by it; the instructors would only have the pleasure of carrying out a long-cherished plan; but the undergraduates would find the Greek play not only interesting or amusing, but also instructive. In fact, were the Greek play nothing more than interesting or amusing, the great labor expended on it might as well not have been undertaken; for pleasure...
However, I went down to Wight with Tennyson. He was very gloomy and unsocial during our ride in the railway-carriage. We travelled third class, for, as he said, poetry was flat, and there was very little profit in the business. There was a plethoric Irish female in the apartment with a crying infant in her arms. I saw that Tennyson's countenance had a rapt, far-away look, so I said pleasantly, "Composing, eh? Sonnet on a weeping infant, - ah! very tender, very touching! Can't I give you a hint...