Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agree with you on the benefit of a uniform minor sports insignia, but let us not do away entirely with the symbol of a prowess other than scholastic unheeded...
Last Saturday the Boston papers carried the announcement of a ten million dollar endowment fund to be created at Harvard, solely for the benefit of athletics. Although the authenticity of the announcement was subsequently denied by President Lowell, the idea of an athletic endowment leads one to speculate on the possibility of a coming change in the present status of college athletics...
Under such an endowment, with athletics freed from financial dependence, the benefit of the student body at large rather than the attraction of big gates would have a chance to become the ideal. Intercollegiate contests might even become subordinated to intramurals, which, in the last analysis, are the most important branch of college athletics. As long as intramural sports are dependent on varsity earnings they will necessarily occupy the subordinate position...
Slocum, the first speaker, spoke on how the proposed Advocate building would fit into the House Plan of the University. Child discussed the importance of a literary organization as a center of intellectual activity in the life of the University, and how this would inevitably redound to the benefit of the University at large...
...avenue. Courtiers pass but the grandeur of tradition still holds its grip upon their modern descendants. Modern methods of artificial duplication serve sufficiently to erect a set upon which these youthful actors may display their talents, such as they are, and gratify the eager ambition of parents to whose benefit the family shirt may now be waved advantageously. Capitalists give till it hurts in this new phase of war on the social front, while the first line bows in and backs out of the presence of that intangible essence that will insure them the envy of associates at home...