Word: profits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...operative guarantees that there be no unnecessary delay. But to enumerate the advantages of the system is simply to state what all can see. We simply wish to emphasize the fact that errands can be done as we have stated, so that members of the society may profit thereby...
...while deprecating such a feeling toward us, we should like to point at one as a possible danger to our friends who hold the reins of authority at our sister college. We hope that they will examine most thoroughly the changes which have been made with us and will profit, we speak with all modesty, by the victories which we have...
...information, the talk of students, goes on unceasingly, With time, perhaps, means may be devised for informing a student more largely what he is choosing. The fullest information is desirable. And now granting that a student has started with good intentions and is well informed about the direction where profit lies, still have we any assurance that he will push those intentions with a fair degree of tenacity through the distractions which beset his daily path? We need, indeed we must have, a third class of helpful limitations which may be influential over the persistent adhesion of our student...
...knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...
...choice with the utmost care, under the best advice, and in such a manner that their studies from the first to last may form a rationally connected whole." This is excellent advice, but it is to be feared that not all students are in a state of mind to profit by it. Special advice is given to those intending to study engineering, medicine, or law as to the courses most advisable for them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students are indefinite or unformed, and those of others are liable to change. In spite of all restrictions...