Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...graduated, to attend church, . . . . and very likely neither of them would think any the worse of him for not attending. What their reason may be for upholding the old theory of a college police, we do not know." The World closes by putting its views, for the benefit of Messrs. Emerson and Clarke, into the form of an interrogation which certainly ought to receive the consideration of these gentlemen and their colleagues of the Corporation. "What becomes of the theory of the elective system, which allows an undergraduate his own voice in matters of study...
...might state, for the benefit of the unsophisticated, that during the exercises about the Tree the Yard will be probably unoccupied except by a few policemen, a small crowd of Cambridge "democrats," and a disconsolate majority of the Freshman class...
...class referred to are the Freshmen, and we are too well acquainted with the studies with which they are afflicted to make an enumeration necessary. There is, however, one characteristic of the Freshman curriculum which falls so heavily upon many students that its modification would be of great benefit...
...College officer could not enter the Yard on Class Day without a ticket from the students, the justice of the measure is hardly to be questioned. The tickets are given to College officers only; and their wives, children, and the strangers that are within their gates derive no more benefit from them than the representatives of the College press, - probably not so much as the Advocate itself...
...dignity of Class Day and Commencement that this step has not been adopted before. Now, to revive a rather antiquated subject, we should consider it a second step in the right direction if the students should follow the good example of those from whom they have derived so much benefit, and do the same thing. It would be much less expensive and, as it seems to us, much more picturesque. At Columbia, in the exhibitions given by the "Philolexism," a literary society, the orators and members appear in caps and gowns, and the effect is most charming. A great many...