Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale came to the college world with a weak measure for preventing professionalism and placing college teams on a strictly college basis, but it was found that Yale had prepared laws that would benefit Yale and reduce her opponents. Harvard, with a spirit which all colleges would do well to imitate, begins at home and enacts a series of laws for the purification of Harvard athletics, regardless of the advantages her adversaries might gain by them. As a result Harvard has to elect a substitute to captain her baseball team and her crew is seriously handicapped. But what of that...
...point to many things in the University, that are the fittest memorials, the outcome of his personal work for the men whom it is proposed to benefit further in his memory. He had a large reward of gratitude for his part in many schemes and institutions for making cheap, pleasant living in Cambridge possible to students...
...made up of students from the college proper, and that men from the Law, Medical, and Theological Schools should not be recognized as candidates for positions. Mr. Sanborn, the club's manager, has already arranged games with Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Tufts, and Dartmouth. The Casino has been engaged for the benefit of those trying for the team, and a professional coach will give the students points twice a week...
Christmas time, he said, brings us to a serious realization of Christ's relation to us. The gladness of Christmas is a thoroughly legitimate joy. It commemorates the greatest benefit that has ever been given to mankind-an assurance of salvation. Since this is so, the feeling of God's gift to us ought to bring us thankfulness and joy. Yet we are apt to stand in an unholy fear of God, and to feel that religion, though an admirable thing to die with, is a hindrance to our peace and success in this life. Our failure to gain...
...will of Dr. Lucius F. Billings, of Barre, bequeaths the sum of $5,000 to Harvard University, to be kept as a permanent fund for the medical department of the University, the annual income to be used for a scholarship for the benefit of poor but deserving medical students...