Word: profit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dining Council during the past year is to be continued next fall. The congratulations of all those interested in the success of Memorial and Randall Halls, are due to the men who have managed these establishments so efficiently, that the annual deficit has been replaced by a profit sufficient to pay interest on the large outstanding debt...
...tennis tournament or to play on the "Chuck-a-Pucks," and in the second place, these scrub sports do not require any more time or energy than the normal youth should devote to h is daily exercise. In discouraging this the arrangement is distinctly harmful. Here we might well profit by the example of the familiar punishment of "waking the area" in use at West Point...
...Physics C, Botany 1, and Zoology 1 before entering the Medical School. These are fundamentals, which should not be neglected. If he wishes, on the other hand, to acquire as strong a foundation as possible for medicine, while in college, other subjects may be pursued with profit. Chemistry 8 to develop theory, qualitative analysis for the general physician, Botany 6 for the study of bacteria, physiology for the entomologist, and Zoology 3 and 4 for the functional side of medicine and microscopic work, are very valuable. Courses on the nervous system by Professor Parker, psychology, and climatology offered...
...Schandegaff Night, if fully attended, should prove of permanent profit, as well as a pleasant evening's entertainment, and all members of the class are urgently requested to be present...
...last point, the testing of fitness for admission, the desideratum doubtless is that all schools men should be admitted who by their ability to keep up to Harvard requirements show that they can profit by Harvard instruction. That the entrance examinations, whether given by Harvard or by the Board, sometimes fail to test this fitness properly, is as evident as that a course examinations may sometimes fail to measure accurately the work done by a student. The Harvard committee on admission, through its own examinations and those of the College Board, is adjusting as equitably as it can the difficult...