Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little to distract the attention of students from the football game with Dartmouth. Though the training of the eleven is not yet very far advanced, its first meeting with another college is always much more interesting than the daily work of the University squad. Students themselves will be well repaid for attending the game today, and a large attendance is but the due encouragement to Captain Brewer...
...least not fair to pass judgment on lacrosse in ignorance of what its merits really are. The games which the managers have arranged to be played in Cambridge give the opportunity to form some reasonable estimate of the worth of the sport. Students will find themselves amply repaid for attending the game this afternoon by the interest of the contest itself. At any rate a considerable attendance is due in acknowledgement of the efforts which the promoters of lacrosse have made, and still are making, in its behalf...
...excellent effect of civil service reform principles as opposed to the spoils system, and gave illustrations of the working of the civil service law which was passed in Massachusetts in 1884. The expenses of the civil service commission for which this law provides were, he said, more than repaid by the saving it brings about in state and municipal administration...
...expectations, high as these had been. The applause which the play received, considering how far a great part of the audience necessarily was a from full appreciation of the finer points, was astonishing. The great hazard of time, work, and care has, if complete success is compensation, been repaid...
Attention will be repaid in several distinct ways. First there will be a lesson in the language itself. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Latin language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing...