Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important problem. The first is the comparative uselessness of men above 40 years of age. This may seem shocking, and yet read aright the world's history bears out he statement.... My second fixed idea is the uslessness of men above 60 years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. ... Whether Anthony Trollope's suggestion of a college and chloroform should be carried out or not I have become a little dubious, as my own time...
Tilden vs. Richards. Three times in the last fortnight Champion William T. Tilden II has faced blond, pouting Vincent Richards, his protegé, his rival. Three times the lank champion has carried off the victory-first at a benefit match at Forest Hills, L. I., 6-3, 8-6; then for the Metropolitan Court Championship at the New York Tennis Club, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4; for the third time in the finals of the Eastern New York State Championships at New Rochelle...
...benefit of the throngs of alumni and undergraduates who are planning to attend the New London classic between the oarsmen of Harvard and Yale on Friday the New Haven Railroad announced today that a special train, consisting of parlor cars, a dining car, and coaches will be operated from Boston to New London on that date...
That there actually exists in the colleges a condition of "moral chaos" is as absurd as it is untrue. Some capable investigator ought to examine this charge against the colleges for the benefit of the general public. Among those who do not know, this will be the only way to dispel an erroneous impression created by a certain type of current fiction on college life...
...average American youth and his average parents have come to feel that college is an indispensable part of the preparation for life, or that the burden of proof rests upon him who would argue against it rather than upon him who would argue for it. But just what benefit should be expected it is not easy to say, because so much is expected. Similarly the average college graduate scarcely knows how to say just what he owes to his college education for the reason that he owes so much...