Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...encouraged anything of the sort. An excellent course in reading at sight last year attracted but few, and therefore was not given again this year. It is true that students are not as well acquainted with German as with French; yet if all who would find these readings of profit should attend, there would be no lack of numbers...
...building is now finished, many of the books have been moved to the new part, and already the Librarian is considering certain plans for the comfort and profit of students using the Library. It is proposed to enlarge the reading-room, to give students free access to more books, and to open the Library in the evening. Though these changes are at present only contemplated, they are of such obvious advantage that they doubtless will be carried out as soon as circumstances will allow...
DURING the past few years the class photographs have given more or less trouble to the successive Class Committees, more or less satisfaction to the members of the successive classes, and more or less profit to the successive photographers. The Class wants the best photographs, and wants to pay a reasonably low price for them. We do not intend to counsel extravagance, but we would suggest to the Committee that what is the cheapest in the beginning is sometimes the dearest in the end; and they should remember that the photographs will last, or at least are expected to last...
...commend to the perusal and profit of the editorial board of the foregoing publication the June number of the Abbott Courant. Though somewhat erratic as to its times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which is its own best recommendation. The bright adaptations of "Mother Goose's Party" are both quaint and original, and the two poems of the number good...
...positive advantages of the voluntary system are not gained in full measure by the whole of any class may be freely admitted; but they should not for that reason be withheld from those whose dispositions to work and sense of duty may reasonably be expected to enable them to profit by such opportunities...