Word: profit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...consideration. It is the question of to what extent and in what attitude of mind the class of 1912 will avail themselves of the opportunity of living in the Yard during Senior year. It is a question for Juniors to decide; but surely in their deliberations the Juniors can profit by the advice of a few Seniors who have already experienced life in Senior dormitories...
...value of this Office cannot be over-estimated, for it brings the advantages of a college education within the reach of many men who are best able to profit by it but who are unable to bear the entire expense that it entails. Perhaps it is almost equally valuable as a branch of the University which, in a practical way, helps men to help themselves. Nor has efficiency been sacrificed in the desire to give a position to every applicant, as is proved by the fact that the number of positions at the disposal of the Office is constantly increasing...
...among the first to know of the changes in opinion which are being disclosed, so that they, being convinced, may tell their juniors that they wish that things had been presented to them in this light when they were undergraduates; but after all it is the undergraduate who can profit personally by the new appeal for a fundamental change in the attitude of the average undergraduate toward his college work. In the last generation the opportunities for study in Harvard were enormously multiplied; the curriculum was enriched by so many courses taught in such enlightening ways that it was believed...
...Cambridge, and that the undergraduate can be shown the ways in which he can do his small part after rejoining the ranks of the alumni. It is only just to the donors of these most acceptable gifts that their generosity should be made known, and that those who profit thereby should know to whom they are indebted...
...discouraging, because fumbling and disobedience to the rules should be unknown in the work of a finished team; encouraging, because such faults are from their simplicity easy for the coaches to attack. The keen football heads that will direct the work of next year's team cannot fail to profit by this experience...