Word: profits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...many men cannot profit by such opportunity after their school and college days. Only at the impressionable age can their interest be aroused, and a love of music implanted...
...Several American universities have flourishing departments of music for the technical training of students who are specially interested; but few give a systematic exposition of the aesthetics as a necessary supplement to this theoretical work, from which also the general body of undergraduates can profit...
...obtaining whatever business training he can absorb from his office and by so doing proves the oft repeated saying that the knowledge we receive in college from our books is but a small factor in the general education that college offers to the man who is ready to profit by every opportunity...
...courses will be open to men and women and a student may take either one course or both; but no persons will be allowed to attend a course unless qualified to profit by it. If under twenty years of age, they must have graduated from a high school or an institution of equal grade; and if over twenty, must have so graduated or show in some other way a sufficient education. For this purpose, applicants will be required to fill out blanks stating their name age; schooling, the kind and extent of reading they have done, and other facts that...
...concern, all the money placed in the sinking fund is made up by taxation. If it happens that private gas works charge more than municipal gas works, the reason is generally because they are in less densely populated districts, where the cost of maintaining mains is greater, and the profit less. The profit of private corporations is spent in remunerating the capitalists and as management expenses. When buying their plants, the city has to raise a loan, and in so doing pledges not only its own money, but also the money of its citizens. A private company pledges only...