Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these three branches of human effort must necessarily do inferior work in life. The man who ignores politics because he lacks interest in humanity and in the problems of legislation, is no less contemptible than the man whose political activity is based upon desire for the profit it may yield...
That the price of board to regular members will be decreased is evident from the facts. Considerable profit will accrue to the hall from the rates charged to transient members; also, if the regular membership is increased, the fixed charges will be more widely distributed. Furthermore, an economy in the matter of waste will be secured by a more simple bill of fare; and this in turn may make possible a further reduction in service with accompanying saving in food for the help...
...arrange for dances, spreads, class pictures, class days, smokers, and a hundred other things of greater or less importance, it has been customary in many cases to call upon the committee chairman for a detailed report of the work involved. The following year the committee is thus enabled to profit by the experience of its predecessors, to avoid their mistakes and improve upon their suggestions. But only too often, when the actual work of the committee is over, the chairman either neglects this duty altogether, or draws up his report long after he has forgotten all the finer points that...
...will not stand by Harvard, it is right for Harvard to support her principles alone. This, says the communication, has been done successfully in educational matters. It proposes a practical test of the proposition, claiming that "if the experiment leaves us worse off than we are, there will be profit in that demonstration," and, further, asserts that thus far "the recommendation has been but feebly challenged on its intrinsic merits...
Suppose as the communication suggests, we have done with theory and try. We cannot see the profit derived from placing ourselves in a position that will be bound to handicap us enormously and send our teams into contests with small hope of victory. We shall have simply crippled ourselves by a useless theoretical experiment...