Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lovely and enduring. No, they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both, but may not he who has not leisure to be a scholar find profit even in the lesser of the two, if that only...
...that in Memorial never could be obtained from private parties at the same price because, in the first place, the cost to each boarder in a small establishment must be greater than in a large establishment and, because, in the second place, an allowance must be made for profit. The two causes combined make the increase in price a very considerable item. Now to the student who must live on a comparatively small amount of money-and the number of such who come to Harvard is very large-the cost of board is the most important variable in expenses...
...room in Vanderbilt $360. The university will consequently, according to these figures, realize $24,840 a year from Vanderbilt Hall. To heat, light and care for this building will cost the university considerably less than $3000 a year. It would be safe to say that the net profit from the dormitory will be $22,000 a year. It is understood that Vanderbilt Hall in its present unfinished condition has cost over...
...class races there is always a strong tendency for the crews to be tardy at the start. To be the last crew in position is considered an advantage, and the manaeuvres to secure this advantage make the race indefinitely late. There is no profit in this. It is not to the advantage of any crew to make the race late, but simply to be later than the others. As fair a chance is given for ingenuity to gain an advantage if the race is set for five and rowed at five, as if the race is set for five...
...against it, we wish to point out that the plan suggested would not be to the benefit of the students. No private enterprise could be expected to furnish board of the same quality and price as could a dining-hall run upon Memorial Hall principles. An element of profit would necessarity enter which must make the quality of the food lower or its price higher. It seems to us that one of the prime needs of Harvard is to make the cost of a sufficiently high standard of living among the students as small as possible; and the fact that...