Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year examinations bring up is not necessarily that of whether the examinations themselves are a good thing or not, though their abolishment would of course solve the whole difficulty at once. Admitting that a mid-year test is valuable in every course, a few queries suggest themselves. Does the benefit gained by preparing for an examination make up for the loss of eight lectures and, in the case of those who get through with their examination early in the period, a week's study, more or less; knowing that they will have a few days in which to "work...
...things may be said to result from mental or spiritual training. First the individual receives personal benefit and, furthermore, his progress is a power, spreading outward, overcoming obstacles and affecting the lives of others...
...hoped that if this plan can be carried out it will result in great benefit to debating, and will at all events place it upon a more secure footing in the University...
...pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories at his command.- (2) He has the benefit of better instructors.- (c) He enjoys to a fuller extent the advantages of the elective system: Educational Review, IV, 366 fg.; VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, II, 460.- (1) He is allowed to pursue unhampered the studies for which he is most fitted.- (2) He is not forced...
Professor Baker closed with a strong appeal to all men who can debate at all to enter the competive debates, not only for the self-evident personal benefit, but to aid the cause of Harvard debating at this crisis...