Word: profit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This year the Committee, in accordance with what it believes to be Mrs. Sheldon's general purpose, has picked out two or three men of unusual promise in the Senior class who would profit by a year abroad, without specific time or place of study, and the Corporation has awarded to them Sheldon Fellowships on the recommendation of the Committee...
...afforded by the schools of journalism in other universities. Even if it were thought best not to establish a separate school of journalism, a thorough course in this subject inserted among those offered in the School of Business Administration could not fail to prove of very great advantage and profit to many Harvard...
...workingman is being constantly undermined and will be found woefully lacking when war faces the country. Great Britain has had experience which has proved that capital is destroying the power of the nation, and we are facing a great crisis which may teach us the same thing, unless we profit by her examples and take steps to avert...
...annual profit from the tennis courts on Jarvis and Soldiers Fields is about $1200. Considered purely from the commercial standpoint, this item in the report of the Graduate Treasurer of Athletics implies business-like management of a profitable sport. Considered from the standpoint of present conditions it implies something far different; in short, it reveals a situation which ought not to be permitted to continue during the present season...
Were there no profit derived from the tennis courts, such conditions would cause no comment. Bad as they are, they would be the best possible under the circumstances and we should be satisfied. But, with an annual surplus of $1200 over and above the present cost of maintenance, it is only natural that the men from whose pockets this sum comes, should be more or less interested to know whither it goes. Approximately one-fifth of the profit was spent on the tennis team. Dinners to victorious Freshman teams and the liberal use of taxicabs may possibly be justifiable...