Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comes to college and does not avail himself of the opportunity to attend the lectures that are constantly being given, is not enjoying the advantages and benefits which Harvard offers in this particular direction. Lectures are the great means by which we may gather the ideas of different men, learn of the vocations and grow wise from their experience; it is also the means by which we may become acquainted with the great men of our day and learn of their manner of thinking. This system of having public lectures is daily growing more and more popular; especially is this...
...elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will be led to say cannot fail to interest those who listen to him. College students are slowly arriving at an appreciation of the fine arts and the benefit to be derived from a study of them, and can understand the weight which men of culture give the subject. We trust that Mr. Herkomer will be greeted with a large and enthusiastic audience, and we venture to prophesy that those who attend his lecture will be amply repaid...
...caused Mr. Depew great surprise to learn that he had been lecturing for the benefit of the Princeton nine, and he is said to have expressed some doubts as to the propriety of such an action in connection with his position as a loyal Yalensian. - Princetonian...
...Yale News editorially advocates the system of inter-class contests, and points to Harvard as an example of the benefit of such a system...
...await the hand of the minister of to-day. The value of the spiritual above the material life, and the brotherhood of humanity, are the two things for the minister to teach. A definite creed is not necessary, if he puts before men the things which he feels would benefit them if they knew them. All considerations of money must be laid aside. The life of the man who cultivates himself for the sake of his fellow men, is the finesty. Not the misery of human life, but the knowledge of this misery, is increasing. The remedy for this...