Word: profit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quite possible that such an arrangement would net a profit to the Gymnasium--at worst, the system would be self-supporting. However, whether profitable or not, the real convenience, which this plan would afford to those who use the Gymnasium seems enough to justify its adoption...
...groups have become crystallized, bowing acquaintance very easily and quickly ripens into friendship. It is important that Freshmen should be able to know their classmates, even if only by sight. In many ways success or failure in forming friendships in Freshman year is likely to determine the pleasure and profit to be gained from the four years in College...
Substitute for the present committee in charge of the Hall a practical and successful restaurateur with complete control. Having stipulated a maximum price of food (five dollars a week, for example), the Corporation would leave the steward free to run the restaurant for what profit he could make. Ordinarily better results are obtained when men in charge of business enterprises (and Memorial should certainly be run on strictly business lines), share in the profits of their work. Moreover, with a stipulated maximum price, the operator of Memorial Hall could not afford to serve poor food, for his profits would have...
...exclusion from the Library of books which contain prescribed reading. The writer affirms that our statement to the effect that certain of the proscribed books are excluded by professors who are their authors or editors, proceeds either from "ignorance or malice." To support this view, he states that the profit on books of an educational nature is very small. Whether the return is small or large is beside the issue. The point the CRIMSON wished to make is this: It does not seem right that a professor should realize any profit at all by excluding a book from the Library...
With such men as Dr. Lyman Abbott and Dr. G. A. Gordon conducting the morning service, it is regrettable that so few men should be there to profit by their words...