Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years has set all the more into relief the garb of contemporary Seniors. The gowns of the past are still, evidently, purchased; some moved, sparse sombre dots, in the early hours of the first week of May; they massed together before Widener in one grand display for the benefit of Notman's and the Album: then--oblivion. The almost-alumnus is no more to be distinguished from the rest of Harvard than is the sweaterless and letterless athlete...
...laboratory equipment for the study of science keeps pace with the needs of the University, it is to be hoped that those in charge of the apparatus will enable the student body to obtain the maximum benefit from the improvements. Great as is the need for up to date laboratories, it would seem also important that they should be available for use in the evening by men whose afternoons must otherwise be dedicated to laboratory work. The example of Dartmouth goes to show that evening laboratory study is entirely practical and not beyond the range of possibility. Where apparently...
...occasion of Sir James's effort last week was a banquet-benefit staged for the Newspaper Press Fund. Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, M.P., presided. Present was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who, as everyone knows, is addicted to detective fiction...
...generous Scotchman, Andrew Carnegie, is suffering now in one of its branches through the realization that the pension fund is running rapidly low. As a result the Foundation feels obliged to swing suddenly from the prodigal to the closed-purse. Harvard, with a large percentage of the men who benefit by the fund, suffers the hardest blow. The rather violent readjustment of amounts to be paid in the future would doubtless cause in many cases considerable annoyance...
...that proper care is taken of her in her confinement. A great physician told me, recently, that if this were done in every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage. The present rate of maternity mortality and the amount of sickness among mothers point to the re-organization of these provisions. Proposals therefore are under consideration for making available, for insured women...