Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...forensics alone, instead of giving them to a professor who has plenty to do without them? Do they think it enough to require a certain number of forensics to be written, without having any correction made in them after they are written? It seems to us that much benefit might be got by instruction, besides that gained by the mere practice in writing...
...Faculty have given special permission that there should be theatricals given in Boston by the students for the benefit of the Boat Club...
...Botanical Garden, or let the Botanical Garden be transplanted to some position nearer to the College. Or, if the College is too poor to go to this expense, I would respectfully suggest that the Faculty furnish conveyances to and fro. The cost need not be large, and the benefit conferred would be great, especially on a rainy day, or when the snow is several feet deep. For the sake of myself and the others who take the course, I hope the Faculty will attend to this matter...
...behavior when in the recitation-room as it does on their excellence in their mental and physical capacities. Laying aside the respect due to their instructors, which is apparently of trifling importance to some, the annoyance it gives to those members of the class who wish to get some benefit out of what is said, ought to deserve some consideration. Good will and good feeling demand that. We would beg, therefore, those who show their appreciation of the Lecture by the exercise of their feet and not of their brains, to give a little better chance to those who wish...
WHILE we unite with the Advocate in rejoicing that the system of voluntary recitations is to be thoroughly tested next year, we are not equally doubtful of the success of that system. The students who are to have the benefit of the privilege - those who have attained seventy per cent - are the very men who will not abuse it, and they are hardly complimented by the assertion that they will be "tempted to cut on any pretext." Their present high rank is a sufficient warranty of their future conduct, and we feel confident that they will not willingly permit...