Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deluded teachers vainly hurling themselves under the juggernaut of Massachusetts politics. He would have seen men and women trained in the highest form of public service discovering at long last that the fate of a law hinged not on its justice, not on its wisdom, but on its probable benefit to the law-makers. Legislating is a form of vote getting...
Little Miss Roughneck (Columbia), a mild satire on Hollywood parents, exhibits another show-struck girl, Edith Fellows, making the most of her opportunity when allowed to do a number at a benefit. Later, en route to Hollywood, she inflicts her version of Gunga Din on the passengers of a transcontinental train. Encouraged by a too-ambitious mother (Margaret Irving), her brattishness persists until a gentle Mexican (Leo Carrillo) brings out the latent good in her. Best performance: Mr. Carrillo's dependable spick...
...from the employees and staff; but this is not the question in point. The fact is that most of the sum has come from the Faculty. Although a large number of Faculty members live in Cambridge and although by contributing to the drive they aid Boston charities which will benefit Cambridge, yet it would seem that they have more intimate connections with the University. The Faculty might divert part of the six thousand dollars from the Fund to the aid of students on "border-line" scholarships, students who are forced to spend too much time on jobs that they receive...
Prime purpose of the change will serve to give the Union Committee an added period in which to prosecute any additional Union activities for the benefit of the Class. At the same time the change will not interfere with any legitimate function of the three elected officers, and it will give the electorate additional time in which to consider its prospective candidates...
...should sub-marginal colleges go by the board in these days when a sound education and well-developed minds are at a premium. Institutions which maintain a high standard should receive state and federal aid in the form of scholarships for young men who have the intellectual capacity to benefit from such education...