Word: profits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...valuable space to "College Chips," from which we learn that belligerent college students seem to be unpleasantly numerous just now; that students of the University of Pennsylvania are very important young men; that Yale boys should have what they want; that Harvard's Greek play netted a handsome profit; that the Harvard students who endeavored to disturb Oscar Wilde at his lecture in Boston, now realize that their action was not very creditable; that the college boat races next summer promise to be more exciting than ever, but that college presidents are opposed to the sport on the ground that...
This Shakespere Society is the most flourishing of any of our organizations. The private meetings are held about once a month and the girls read and study the different plays with great pleasure and profit. Two literaries existed last year, the Phi Sigma and Zeta Alpha, but, sad to tell, they were disbanded and now Wellesley can boast of only four societies - the Beethoven, Microscopical and Missionary. Some weeks ago the latter gave a very pleasant exposition of Eastern customs in the gymnasium, the walls of which were hung with scarlet draperies and Oriental banners, while the stage presented several...
EDITOR HARVARD HERALD : As is well known, there have been several attempts among the students, of late years, to provide some means of procuring books and of protecting themselves from extortionate prices. For various reasons, these enterprises have been short-lived, though every one was ready and willing to profit by the advantages they afforded. It seems that the principal reason is, that Mr. Sever always cuts prices for a time so that the enterprising students are unable to successfully compete with him, their capital being limited, and he having other resources upon which to rely, as well...
...reported that the Greek play has proved a successful venture, and that the managers will realize a handsome profit...
Sensible as ever: President Chadbourne of the Agricultural Colleges, so miscalled, says that no young man should go to college until he is old enough to know what he goes for, nor stay a day after he forgets his duty as a citizen, or fails to profit by the advantages afforded him. College rowdies belong at the reform school. - [Herald...