Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true, however, that a Glee club trip is in any proper sense of the word an advertisement. Last year the benefit accrued, and was intended to accrue to the graduates rather than to the college or the members of the Glee club. Those to whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee...
...varsity, indeed, so valuable is the experience of training with the freshmen at New London, that the 'varsity is usually composed (with few exceptions) of men who sat in their freshman boats. It is desired therefore, that the most promising men in each freshman class shall have the benefit of that preparation...
...this has failed to reach the faculty. If it has reached them it is their duty to speak. They will be gladly heard; and, at the same time that they help to heal the breach between themselves and students which is more nominal than real, they cannot fail to benefit our athletics, at least in some degree, If we can but thoroughly stir the spirit of Harvard, we may perhaps regain for her the athletic prestige which she has lost. The columns of the CRIMSON are gladly opened to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates alike...
...should have to admit that our faculty and their committee started the movement in the strictures they imposed on the members of our team and those wishing to be members. Now we are going to put this reform through, and the reform is going in the long run to benefit Princeton most and cripple Yale most. But don't let us be undignified. and don't let us make an enemy of our old ally when there is nothing to gain there by and much to loose...
...facsimile of a letter of Ames's tending in the same direction. It appears also that Ames and others have produced counter affidavits and declarations that the letter is a forgery. Now my first question: Why is it not fair and just to give Ames and Princeton the benefit of the doubt till the facts are established, or, at least, leave the question open? If the facts are established let us have them...