Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more value to them than their work on the CRIMSON. Nothing has brought them truer friendships or given them better preparation for a future of usefulness. While some of the work has been drudgery, yet this very attention to the most wearisome details has been a source of great profit. Now that it is all over, the unpleasant side of the work drops from sight and we feel nothing but pleasure and gratitude as we look back on our connection with the paper. We shall remember the CRIMSON with the greatest affection and shall watch its progress with sincerest interest...
...number of years Harvard has been represented in the Midwinter B. A. A. Games, and it has always been with profit to her representatives. The games make a welcome break in the long stretch of training given the Mott Haven candidates, and the actual experience gained in them is of much worth. Many men have there first learned to appreciate the necessity of presence of mind and control of nerves. The games certainly form a valuable supplement to Mr. Lathrop's work and we wish the best of success to the many men under his charge who are to compete...
...factor in the national thought and the national speech. The new plan asserts exactly this right. If debates are held as proposed, simultaneously throughout the country, and reports of the debates are published in the best magazines, American citizens will read college opinion with interest and with profit; the students will take more interest in their citizenship and the "outside world" will see that, after all, college men are not all snobs and butterflies. The topics for debate will be subjects with which the students will have to deal when they leave college, and here again will be a strong...
...professional athlete who has received pecuniary profit from athletics to be eligible...
...Profit goes to the citizens, either in the form of lower rates or of public revenue...