Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second part of the pamphlet contains a number of letters written by students in response to a request that they should give others the benefit of their experience. Many letters express the opinion that it is better for a man to work a year before entering college rather than to come here without resources, but nearly all agree that after a year spent in college a man should be capable of earning enough to meet all necessary expenses...
Miss Beatrice Herford will give a monologue recital for the benefit of the Associated Charities of Cambridge at 8 o'clock this evening in the Fogg Lecture Room. Miss Herford has had several years of experience and has just completed a successful engagement in New York...
...candidates for the University and class lacrosse teams will be held in Lower Massachusetts at 7 o'clock. Short speeches will be made by Captain Phillips, J. A. Sayler 3L., and Trainer McMaster. Plans for the season will be outlined, and the game will be explained for the benefit of inexperienced men. All men in the University who have played lacrosse, and all new men, especially Freshman, who would like to learn the game are invited to attend...
Meanwhile, the married daughter, Marianne, suspecting her husband, Dr. Neumeister, of having had a wild youth, so pesters him to confess that he concocts for her benefit a lively tale, on condition that she will never mention it. She, however, immediately confides it to her mother, who then stirs up an endless amount of trouble...
Miss Mary Phillips Webster gave a successful concert-lecture on "Music in England in Shakespere's Time" in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening for the benefit of the Radcliffe musical scholarship fund. The age of Queen Elizabeth was particularly a musical one, she said. The gayety of the times and the growth of the masque fostered the development of music, especially vocal music. The prominent composers of the time were John Benet, John Wilbye, Thomas Ford, Peter Phillips, Thomas Campion, and William Byrd. Selections from their compositions were very well received...