Word: profit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is the lesson that our first defeat in debating can teach us, and if we refuse to profit by it, our prestige in debate before very long will be gone...
...meeting of the Cercle Francais last evening J. P. Hayden '97, manager, made a report on the finances of the play, showing a net profit of $283,00 not including fifty dollars still to be paid up-Professor de Sumichrast, also, spoke on the last play and on plans for next year. "L' Avare," "Les Facheux" and "Les Femmes Savantes" were suggested. It was also decided to have several smaller private performances during the year. The idea is to present before the club and invited guests short comedies of this century. They will be got up with much less trouble...
...point out how easily the admission of such a principle would afford a cover for corruption of the worst sort. The experience of sportsmen the world over is that the only safe rule is that which precludes the possibility of a man's engaging in athletics for pecuniary profit and still retaining his amateur standing, even though it may work hard in some cases against men who are undoubtedly sportsmen and gentlemen...
...meeting tonight. Of the twenty-six hundred men in the Cambridge departments of the University, there are certainly more than one man in ten who have the time and capacity to undertake the training which candidates for this team will undergo, and who would get both enjoyment and profit out of it. It happens perhaps more often in this branch of athletics than in others that the best material is often developed from men who have had no previous experience and who are not aware of their fitness for the work. It is really very little to ask of every...
...Union, but if a more general interest in debating is brought about by it, the objection is of weight only to the few. It is the custom to have a senior preside and have three judges from outside eating clubs. The junior class has taken up debating for profit, and to a certain extent pleasure, while the sophomores have shown their interest in the establishment of two literary clubs, the Kipling Club and the Stevenson Club. Weekly meetings are held and the reading and discussion of the especial writters is the primary purpose. The Civil serveice Reform Association has been...