Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American blood. Mr. Hood pointed out in his communication of last Monday the great barriers intervening between us and our guests from abroad which not only prevent them from obtaining little more than a superficial knowledge of American customs and culture but also shut us out from the profit we might enjoy from associating more closely with them. He suggested certain remedies for the situation,--to wit, the mingling of foreign students with American in dormitories and commons...
...music-loving students in the University should certainly make every effort to attend these expositions and to get the full pleasure and profit from them which the alumni so generously provide for. As there is a great deal going on now in the college world, and as it is correspondingly difficult to bring worthy objects to people's notice, I hope that everyone will tell his neighbor about these expositions so that little by little the large and enthusiastic audiences of former days may be regained. These expositions are certainly one of the most unusual opportunities for Harvard students...
...press, but they will derive benefit from the informal association with the Faculty leaders who otherwise may enter but vaguely into their lives. In addition, the part which each may take in open discussion will afford a valuable sort of training to the individual. In fact, the profit received will be so well worth the time spent, that each member of the University who can possibly do so should arrange to enter one of the groups as soon as they are formed...
...have demonstrated anything, they have demonstrated the falsity of that assumption. The years of American neutrality were, for herself, economically gainful; but they were in no sense morally valuable. It was, moreover, obvious that the situation in Europe would not permit either America or any other neutral permanently to profit by the misfortunes of her neighbors. No nation which, like Great Britain, has cultivated sea-power, can afford to sacrifice its content to the clamour of neutral exporters. That will mean initiative on both sides and, if as with Germany, initiative is translated into outrage, the inevitable consequences will...
...course may to some appear the wisest. But is it not a bit of misplaced enthusiasm to thrust a Krag into the hands of a lieutenant, who has just checked in a dozen machine guns at Camp Hancock, or to ask a man returning to college from France to profit by simulated battles with simulated. Huns at Fresh Pond, or to continue the training of a score or so of j. g.'s by making them paddle a converted flat boat up the Charles? Of the 2,000 odd men who will today pay their thirty-three dollars and thirty...