Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...result in affairs being administered in unity. The student part will work with the corporation part. Camp himself will give to this matter the whole time, which he has hitherto given to the writing of magazine articles of various kinds. He will give the students and the faculty the benefit of his advice and we hope that this work will tend to much needed reforms...
...Henry C. Warren. $15,000 to the endowment of Harvard Oriental Series, $10,000 to the Dental School, $10,000 to the Peabody Museum for carrying on explorations, and $108,901.77 for benefit of Indo-Iranian or Sanskrit Department...
...heard the case, to find the fact that the principal or dominant consideration in regard to the occupation of the houses by the several professors had reference to the performance of their duties in the offices which they held as professors and otherwise, rather than to the private benefit which they would receive in the way of homes for themselves and their families, and he was justified in finding that the occupancy was for the purpose for which the College was incorporated...
...summing up, the Court says: "The distinction lies, it seems to us, between an occupancy which is for the private benefit and convenience of the officer and which is so regarded by the parties as in the ordinary case of landlord and tenant, and an occupancy where, although necessarily to some extent the relation of landlord and tenant enters into it, the dominant or principal matter of consideration is the effect of the occupancy in promoting the objects of the institution and upon the efficiency and influence of the officers as such and upon those whom the institution designs...
...Jacob A. Riis of New York, will lecture on January 20 under the auspices of the Cantabrigia Club, on "The Battle with the Slums." The lecture will be for the benefit of the Radcliffe Scholarship Fund of which $2000 of the necessary $5000 has already been raised. Last year the Cantabrigia Club provided two scholarships, but the plan usually followed has been to offer one scholarship and add the money remaining to the permanent fund...