Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tickets are now being sold by Annex students for the Annex Glee Club Concert to be given April 27th, for the benefit of the Library. A reception will be held after the concert...
...recurring to last year's club we are reminded of the disgraceful spectacle of the spring concert given for the benefit of the freshman crew. Out of a class of over three hundred men, twenty went to the concert. It is always hard work to support a freshman crew, but one of the easiest ways of doing so is by giving the glee club hearty support and standing by them in all their work. With the exception of last year's class, the previous classes have shown this spirit of loyalty to the glee club and thus made the work...
...John Morley has given large credit to Sir Robert Walpole for the work he did in developing the English party system. These statements come from men who have carefully considered the party system, defects and all, and who believe that it has been on the whole a great benefit to the English people and an essential help to good government. It must be admitted that a system which has achieved so much for mankind cannot be lightly dismissed in deference to anybody's criticism. All great measures have been the work of parties and party government means movement, stability...
...avoided. The idea should come first and be understood then the term applied afterwards, otherwise the term is memorized without any definite knowledge of its meaning. Avoid authoritative terms and generalizations. There is often too much stress laid on trifling subjects. Statistics are tiring and of no great benefit to the student. Many errors occur in text books, such as misleading statements in regard to the tides, the air about the equator, rain and volcanoes. In the whole course of geographical study, whether it be in determining what to do or to omit, the essential requisite is to read, study...
...time waiting for the hot water to come back again. This takes it for granted that he finally gets hot water. When, however, he does not, he has either to take a sudden plunge in the shower bath, or go without bathing, in neither case deriving the benefit of a good, warm water bath. Moreover he runs a great risk of catching cold. There is not the slightest excuse for this state of things continuing a day longer. Whoever has charge of the boilers should see that there is an ample supply of hot water on hand...