Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other hand there are many things to be urged in favor of semiannual examinations. The writer of your communication bases his whole argument on the fact that a change of system would be of benefit to those who "come to college simply to have a good time." Now, I contend that the regulations of college should be shaped so as to benefit not those who come here to loaf, but those who come here to study, if the interests of the two classes of men are at variance...
...have been arranged to take place during the next few weeks in the towns near Boston. Immediately after the spring vacation the club will begin its regular rehearsals for the Cambridge concert. The club will take part in the concert to be given in Boston next week for the benefit of the University crew...
...shown in the various departments of the University during the past year in bringing before the public the results of investigations by the various instructors. These gentlemen have not only attended to their official duties but they have with commendable energy pursued their several special lines of study with benefit to a large class of people. Much valuable work has been done by the members of the Astronomical Observatory. Director Edward C. Pickering has issued a short but extremely important document, viz., "The First Annual Report of the Photographic Study of Stellar Spectra conducted at the Harvard College Observatory." Seth...
...American Society for Psychical Research, whose secretary, Mr. Richard Hodgson, is to lecture next Monday evening for the benefit of the University Crew, is a society in which the college should be interested because so many of the professors are leading members, and because it has been proved that a study of the laws of mental action is one that can be carried on to advantage. Among the leading movers in the society the names of Dr. Bowditch, of the Harvard Medical School, Professor Pickering, of the Observatory, Professors Royce and James and Mr. S. N. Scudder, are well-known...
...grind up in a single night a whole half year's work, and the result is he remembers just enough to pass a fair examination the next day, and afterwards knows nothing about his subject. It is the exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does not care for the great advantages the college offers, is tempted, with the present system of examinations, to loaf. Such a man would oppose hour examinations; but the man who is desirous of making...