Word: profit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman and University track and cross-country teams in the Locker Building this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Plans for the fall season will be outlined. The track authorities consider it especially important for Freshmen and inexperienced candidates to report for fall practice in order that they may profit by the greater attention which they can receive from the coaches at this time...
...military; while the delegates from Michigan and Nebraska were able to see the other side,--the economic. And Henry Ford, above all others, stands for an economic preparedness. Mr. Ford has made innovations which bid fair to revolutionize all industry, one of which was the establishment of a profit-sharing plan for his employes involving a distribution of about $17,000,000 annually. He has also established a minimum wage of $5.00 a day throughout all his factories, domestic and foreign, which has brought him to the front of employers of labor. His remarkable way of dealing with the many...
...White, and others presented very divergent views. The camp this year will be addressed by speakers of equal ability, so that all men who are interested in the international career of the United States, who wish to "understand its foreign policy and help to mould it," would enjoy and profit by attending the meetings this year. The cost is small; the experience is stimulating; the time is such that this conference may conveniently be made a preliminary to the July camps at Plattsburg. Any of the dozen University undergraduate and graduate students who were at last year's conference will...
...present situation of the Union was found to be unjust and intolerable for those who belonged and consequently supported it. The Union's income is derived entirely from membership fees and from any profit that there may be from the restaurant and from the sale of cigars and magazines, etc. Yet every year numerous public functions are held in the Union, such as class smokers, dinners, mass meetings, faculty receptions and dances, and lectures of one kind and another. In the case of undergraduate affairs, it has been estimated that in the last five years, only 55 per cent...
...That Boston is but seven minutes by subway is no reason for attributing to blue laws and conservatism adverse or favorable criticism due to Harvard. Since representatives of the so-called "remote and imperfectly civilized places" are more active here proportionately than New Englanders, and since Boston's best profit as much from association with the "imperfectly civilized" as the latter profit from Back Bay's chill influence, some good in Harvard is not derived from Boston, drunk or sober...