Word: profits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which Harvard is particularly interested, for during the first year of its existence it was managed by Professor W. W. Goodwin, one of the original projectors and one to whom the school owes very much. This institution at Athens affords to all American students who are competent to profit by it the advantage of pursuing their studies in the heart of Greece, free of charge for tuition, and under competent direction. The school occupies a comfortable building in a pleasant quarter of the modern city, and possesses already an admirable working library of about one thousand volumes...
...hope that a sentiment of honor will forbid an evasion of that payment by players. The college authorities are thinking of taking charge of the courts in the spring, but wish, first, to allow us one chance to run them ourselves. Let us try to profit...
...scheme described in their circular, and the greater ease with which foreign text books will be procured. The expenses and estimates for next year necessitate, in the opinion of the officers, the raising of the annual fee from $2.00 to $2.50. but to compensate for this the margin of profit on goods bought will be even smaller than before. Everything seems to point to a year of unexampled prosperity for the Co-operative Society...
...regardless of the expense and labor involved. If one proposes to do so, it is important that he should make a judicious selection of the rifle on which he is to rely; and on that selection will depend, to a certain extent, the enjoyment and profit of the trip. A person who has never had any experience cannot realize the importance of having a rifle that suits him exactly. And as it is very annoying for one to find out that he does not like his gun when he is in the woods and out of the reach of civilization...
...extempore speaking on topics of general interest. The number of members must be limited to 21. Preference in choosing from among those who apply will be given to seniors or juniors. If more than 21 seniors apply preference will be given to those who seem best fitted to profit by the work...