Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would meet with reproach on every hand. It should be the same with the literary man Every student of ability should fell it incumbent on him to spend his efforts in Harvard's service, it matters not in what direction. Selfishness in witholding power by which the College might profit is of all kinds the worst. We do not doubt that a little more strenuous effort would often rouse the literary power, weakened by disuse, and turn it to the benefit of the College periodicals. The new year would be an excellent time to inaugurate the change...
Harvard has been represented at these conferences in years past by delegations of from ten to fifteen men, who bear unanimous testimony to the profit and pleasure in thus spending a summer vacation. Yale and Princeton each send annual delegations of thirty to forty men. This year there are over a dozen colleges in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania that are planning to send from twenty to twenty-five men. The delegation from Harvard is expected to number at least twenty...
...idle the next. It can not be expected that the Glee Club alone can gratify them all. Two, or at most three, times a week is all they can fairly be asked to sing. On some of the other evenings the students would be well pleased to profit by the kindness of the Banjo or Mandolin Clubs...
...Those who have faithfully gone through with it have fairly won a right to the whole-hearted support and encouragement of the students. The team starts today with bright prospects of winning the intercollegiate games on Saturday. The men are all in the best of condition and able to profit to the full by their recent experience of competition in the games with Yale. It is to be hoped that they will receive an enthusiastic send-off. There can be no question that the students are all united in wishing them entire success; they should also be united in expressing...
...people a reasonably convenient means of viewing the finish, which it will now be much more difficult to do. In fact, the referee's tug is practically the only place from which the race can now be satisfactorily followed. It is to be hoped that the crews will really profit much by rowing up instead of down stream, else the old arrangement would be far preferable...