Word: profit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must have done untold adaptability and the meeting of new educational problems in manifold new ways, augurs well for the future development of many widely separated American schools and colleges, when those who have created and attended Beaune University return. But may not American educators and scholars profit by their example, even before their return...
...closets, we advise the perusal of what Mr. Ayme-Martin has to say about Harvard. If with this could be combined the talk which Doctor Johnston Ross gave in Appleton Chapel, Tuesday morning, we should possess a homily from the frequent perusal of which we Harvard men, could profit much. B. S. HURLBUT
...Covenant, and considers it far from hopeless. He considers the Covenant as it stands an instrument of great practical power, but as yet far from a perfect one. If reports be true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which Mr. Root has taken and above all let us detach the League scheme from personalities as completely as he has done, and try to discuss as justly and disinterestedly its merits and defects...
...great war has taught us a lesson which we cannot afford to forget, and the only way we can profit by what we have learned is to have universal military training. Military service has awakened in our young men a great feeling of patriotism and service. It has given them confidence in themselves, and made them straight-forward, virile, and honest. I feel sure that the decrease in crime resulting from universal military service would more than cover the cost of training. If all our young men could have a year in the army, I believe that...
...knows exactly what to do with the German colonies. But that doesn't mean that they are to be laid waste so that no one will profit by them. They must be distributed or placed under international control. The same principle applies to the disposition of the German and Austrian warships. Destroying valuable property because of its potential ability to create ill feeling is nothing else than a cowardly action...