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Word: profit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backfield, the Crimson will rely chiefly on two newcomers, Samuel D. Cockins 1B and Lawrence T. Profit sp., who played for the Bermuda Rugby Club last season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 15 RUGGERS WILL SAIL TO BERMUDA FOR TRIP | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...much of the profit of this ingenious turn of affairs is wasted. There is litle interest to be derived from putting characters through revealing paces if the characters are not intrinsically interesting. Mr. Allen's creations are rather shadowy, tedious things. One character out of the ten, however, redeems the play, and demonstrates that the author can create, at least within narrow limits. This is a jovial Irish lawyer named O'Neill, who admits that he has plenty of brains but no character, and is therefore no good. He is altogether of the Sidney Carton pattern, except that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

...thorough tutorial work for at least one year and also to enable each department to determine under which plan of instruction (A or B) a student will obtain the education best suited to this abilities. After the sophomore year those upperclassmen who give evidence of being able to profit from a type of tutorial instruction which places a large degree of responsibility upon the individual student, and who furthermore desire to avail themselves of such instruction, will carry on under Plan A full-time tutorial work as in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Asks Tutorial Revision; Plan Emphasizes Course Aspects in 1937-8 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...that they should be required to take for the degree 16 courses in addition to English A instead of the minimum of 15 as in the past. Prevision is made for the transfer of any student under Plan B to Plan A if he later demonstrates his ability to profit by the more demonstrates his ability to profit by the more interview form of tutorial work, and declares to make such a transfer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Asks Tutorial Revision; Plan Emphasizes Course Aspects in 1937-8 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Faculty Council has approved the readjustments in the tutorial system because of a conviction that there is a considerable number of students who, in the mastery of their fields of concentration and preparation for the general examinations, would profit more by a less intensive form of tutorial instruction than has been generally given, and by a somewhat greater reliance upon course work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Asks Tutorial Revision; Plan Emphasizes Course Aspects in 1937-8 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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