Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these returns from the sale of merchandise there was a total net profit of $43,472.17 made at all the stores. Of this total, $27,073.02 was made at the Harvard Square stores. The president of the society states in his annual report that, in view of the very small enrolment of students in the University, and the consequent falling off of sales during the first six months of this fiscal year, this volume of business is excellent...
...important as the academic instruction; and it depends upon the atmosphere, the traditions, and the standards which are there set up and maintained. If the college is only a place, as some critics have charged, where a young man spends four years very pleasantly and not quite without profit, it holds a poor position among educational institutions, and is a doubtful luxury rather than a necessity in a strenuous land. But if it is a community in which young men are striving to make the most of the great opportunities intellectual, social, and physical offered them in its free...
...fault for the high living cost? Wage earners are blaming the employers and capitalists, and the employers and capitalists are blaming the wage earners. Each accuses the other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
...athletics during their last three years with compulsion during the first year, than under a strictly laissez-faire policy. Men who have never partaken in any sports or games in their school days will be drawn into them in college and will be able to enjoy them and profit by them throughout life. The spectacle of clever and talented men needlessly stricken with physical disability in the prime of life, so that all their wit and ability must wither, is only too common; it is such useless waste of talent that the University would try to avoid by showing...