Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rare sympathy and understanding have made of the highest value. The essays are frank, forceful in their simplicity, full of humor, pointing out vividly the influences which work for the undermining of character or for its ennoblement, and revealing the folly of the curious idea that young men benefit from dabblings in vices. The book will be of much interest to Harvard men, but it should be most gladly welcomed by those who will find in it a little piece of the personality which it has not been given them to know more intimately...
...Jacob A. Riis of New York will lecture this evening in Sanders Theatre at 8.15 on "What Mr. Low Can Do in New York." The lecture, which will be illustrated by stereopticon views, is given under the auspices of the Social Service Committee for the benefit of its philanthropic work. Tickets, at 50 cents each, are on sale at Herrick's, Sever's and the Union. The time is set at 8.15 so that all may attend the Pierian Concert at the Union earlier in the evening...
...consider for a minute why we have athletic sports at all. Is it not for the pleasure and amusement to be gained from them, for the cultivation of manliness and for the benefit to general health and vigor? Of course in the case of our big teams or crews, where the strain is most severe, men do not try for them for their health, but to "make" the team, and for the honor and advancement to be gained thereby. And this is certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial, and the spirit...
...Jacob A. Riis of New York is to deliver a lecture, illustrated by stereopticon views, in Sanders Theatre next Tuesday evening on "What Mr. Low Can Do in New York." The lecture is given under the auspices of the Social Service Committee, for the benefit of its philanthropic work. Tickets, at fifty cents each, have been placed on sale at Sever's and at Herrick...
...Copeland will give a series of six lectures in February or March, for the benefit of the Prospect Union. He will speak on the English poets, principally those of the nineteenth century...