Word: repays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sidney Willard, who was professor at Harvard from 1807 to 1831, in a passage cited by Prof. Young, refers to his small Hebrew classes, and "the general impression" that "the value of such learning does not repay the labor and pains necessary to be undergone in its requirement." Willard is cited as having asked Prof. Stuart whether there were many Hebrew scholars in his classes, and the reply was very few. Still there were able Hebrew and Oriental professors four or five decades ago, and the early professors of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York, Isaac...
...expenses, $34, 114.43; college expenses, $51,017.06; library salaries and expenses (not books), $23,760.81; college salaries, $15,484.93; gymnasium expenses, $11,349.62; repairs and insurance on college buildings not valued on treasurer's books, $6,333.73; total, $282,060.58. Balance, which has been carried to stock account, to repay in part former deficits, $2,999.46. - Boston Herrld...
...year 1883-84 the Law School had a deficit of $412.86. In such cases the college advances the necessary funds for the temporary support of the department. This was the case with the Observatory, which did not repay the outlay made upon it at first, although this has since been made up by handsome endowments, especially the endowment made by Uriah Boyden...
...League for a Protective Tariff have offered three prizes for the best essays written by seniors of American colleges on the necessity for a protective tariff. This plan will undoubtedly induce many men to study the subject, insomuch as the prizes are of an amount that will repay the successful contestants for their labor. In view of the present condition of the tariff, it is well that such study should be given it. The competition without doubt will be very extended, and the successful papers will be well worth the publication which is designed for them...
...regards the renaissance of classical studies, which has been almost exclusively bestowed upon Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petraca. Archaeology is founded on an absolute critic inquiry, on the comparison of antique monuments and with written and engraved documents. Archaeology is a science which, differing from others, begins to repay at once the zeal of the student with deep moral satisfaction. It is a science so noble and fascinating that it helps wonderfully to form the character of intelligent youths, yet it is true that its study requires the spirit of enterprise, plenty of money, a subtle mind, and constancy...