Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...blame for the abuses which have crept into the game, and wholly to blame for the unnatural position which it now occupies. There has been too great a pressure brought upon the college man to make him forget that his athletic sports are intended for his own recreation and benefit, and not for the gratification of the public's love of excitement. The fame of the athlete, even if confined to his own college, might well be sufficient to make him overestimate the importance of his athletic activity. When this fame spreads over whole sections of the country, and college...
...days ago the Freshman Banjo Club petitioned the Committee on Dramatic and Musical Entertainments for permission to give a concert Monday evening, March 11, at the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, for the benefit of a fair which is to be held there. Yesterday an answer was received from Professor Palmer, chairman of the committee, to the effect that the concert should count as one of the three which the club is always permitted to give. This condition the club was unable to accept, as it would be unfair to the Glee and Mandolin Clubs...
...debate, and developing the capability for it. In the present case, to ensure the success of the first meeting between the two clubs, many of the men are debaters of proven ability. It is to be hoped, however, that such meetings will be repeated in the future for the benefit of less experienced men. They would thus exert a strong influence in spreading the practice of debate and bringing it to the high position in college life which it deserves...
...regular meeting of the Prospect Union Wednesday evening, a unanimous and hearty vote of thanks was tendered the members of the Harvard University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs for their kindness in giving the concert for the benefit of the Union in Cambridgeport last week. The net proceeds of the concert amounted to nearly two hundred dollars...
...yesterday's papers. By Miss Barr's will, the "Harvard Annex," now Radcliffe College, receives a residuary bequest amounting to between forty and forty-five thousand dollars, to "be applied in the form of annual scholarships of not less than $250 and not more than $300, for the benefit of students in the said 'Annex' who, in point of character, ability and physical constitution, give promise of future usefulness and who stand in need of pecuniary assistance...