Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Obviously the distribution in this way of tickets for three games will entail additional expense. It is unlikely that this additional expense will account for the extra profit which will be made with the price of admission thus advanced. In making the burden of financial support of athletics heavier, in one direction, the Athletic Association may reasonably be expected to lighten it somewhere else. We suggest the abolition of subscriptions as a most welcome relief...
...Each separate work will be preceded by a concise introduction; and notes and glossaries will be provided whenever they seem likely to increase the reader's enjoyment and profit...
...College Courses" affords racy reading. We can imagine the reader sitting with the elective pamphlet in one hand saying, "Who is it that gives Abyzsinian 29 which is conducted in an insipid way, although the lecturer has great ability?" We wish that we could hope that instructors might profit by the exceeding multitude of conflicting counsels: "When he cried, 'Steer to starbord, but keep her head to larbord,' What on earth was the helmsman...
...love with realism and a sense of humor. In "The Winged Stone" Mr. Reed retells a story that is as old as the Greeks, that of the ambitious youth who has to choose between true happiness and wealth and power. The youth chooses the latter and finds how little profit there is in winning the whole world and losing his own soul. The story is well told. In "Song," C.E.H. prays to taste of pain, of hate, and sin, that he may know what lies beyond. In "Spring Snows," W.C.G. has a pretty conceit; "Should our spring become a winter...
...cows, sheep, pigs, and hens at the Bussey Institute, as well as growing all the necessary vegetables there; the teams which brought the produce to Memorial and Randall could carry back all the refuse, to be used in feeding the stock. It is just such a scheme which brings profit to some of the large hotels in Boston. In addition the Corporation could thus greatly help a school of practical farming at the Bussey. Such a school is much desired in the eastern part of the state