Word: profitable
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Other plays, both in Greek and Latin, could be produced with profit. Greek and Latin, if they are to hold their own under present educational conditions, must be presented, not simply as fit tools for mental exercise, but as worthy of study for themselves,- as the introduction to other civilizations. To aid in this new method, no more valuable a means could well be found than the presentation of one of the best pieces of the classical drama...
...candidates for the nine. In consequence of this, Capt. Wiggin has decided to reduce the number of players to about twenty men, exclusive of the batteries. This reduction of candidates will go into effect Monday and will be beneficial in that it will enable the most promising men to profit by more individual coaching. The impossiblity of devising a rule, which will be sufficiently comprehensive to decide concerning the eligibility of all candidates for the athletic teams, is shown by the fact that the rules, adopted at the beginning of the year, fail to determine whether several of the candidates...
...idleness. There are numberless opportunities for instruction and pleasure afforded here to the student. Lowell, Longfellow, and many others have gone off into the woods or fields, and found there an avocation in the study of nature. Then Sunday is a day when one can read with pleasure and profit the history of the Christian church, or, if not fond of literature, there are art and music. A student should employ his Sundays in physical refreshment, intellectual enlargement, and acquaintance with religion...
...spirit which manifests itself in more ways here than in the matter of a Trophy Room, and which makes success nearly impossible wherever it appears. Harvard may originate as many ideas as she pleases, but unless she uses what she originates, where is the profit? There is, indeed, absolute loss. Other universities take advatage of Harvard's work and use it against her. There are men now connected with the University who have seen tricks, first played by Harvard teams, taken up by Yale and years after worked successfully against later Harvard teams. We must have some way of profiting...
...point of view, athletic sports are to be promoted either as wholesome pleasures which do not interfere with work, or as means of maintaining healthy and vigorous bodies in serviceable condition for the intellectual and moral life. With athletics considered as an end in themselves, pursued either for pecuniary profit or for popular applause, a college or university has nothing to do. Neither is it an appropriate function for a college or university to provide periodical entertainments during term-time for multitudes of people who are not students...