Word: benefit
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...have no basis for saying that "I do not know any institution that puts so much pressure on their students in terms of grade competition." Rather, I emphasized the more general aspects of competitiveness at Harvard, among faculty as well as among students, at once burden, bravura, and benefit. Grade competition may well be higher at selective colleges with fewer non-academic arenas in which to seek distinction. David Riesman '31 Ford Professor of Social Sciences, emeritus
Openness in governance is the common thread running through every student movement on campus. If the variety of student interests can be unified behind this goal and a system of student input into governance permanently established, all students will benefit...
...course, in discussion of a proposedlaboratory animal ordinance, the universities areportrayed as prime offenders, and Vellucci,whenever possible, recalls the days when dog-andcat-nappers stole the city's pets and sold them toHarvard for the dubious benefit of research...
...Widener's Sunday hours also benefit staffmembers, who do not have borrowing privileges inLamont and Hilles. "I love spending Sunday in thelibrary, epecially during the winter," said NoelT. Kehrlein, a Radcliffe College staff assistant,adding that she was taking out books for aliterature class
...still running hard. Already the most beloved and best-paid entertainer in America, he still works like a hungry journeyman: jetting from a movie set in San Francisco to a weeklong casino gig in Las Vegas to the taping of his TV series in New York to a benefit for black college students in Los Angeles. "Sure, sometimes I think I'm stretched thin," Cosby muses, pausing to pinch off the end of his Connoisseur Geant. "But I remember how my mother worked twelve- hour days cleaning other people's houses before coming home to take care...