Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio, or it occupies its leisure with action, such as driving or camping or dancing. If the college could enter a wedge into the customs of the country by instilling at least in the student the habit of reading good books, it would confer on society a benefit of very great value. At present the outlook in the colleges is far from hopeful. The student reads in his room less and less. As a rule he shares his rooms with one or more friends, and when they and their acquaintances drop in--as they are wont to do--studying becomes...
...Years ago, during the Russo-Japanese War, I had a most pleasant acquaintanceship with Baron Kentaro Kaneko, now a Marquis. I was able to be of service to him, and Mrs. MacVeagh was helpful in managing a pageant for the benefit of Japanese children made fatherless through...
From the employees' standpoint also the money has been well spent. New lockers, a new lavatory, and a rest room are the improvements which especially benefit the employees...
...commenting upon the new plan Albert Beecher Crawford, director of the University Bureau of Appointments, under whose direction the scholarship awards are made, said: "Scholarship aid and employment secured by the Bureau for students, have both increased approximately 450 percent in the past six years. The per capita benefit during that same period, due to higher costs and the great increase in students, has nevertheless barely held its own. With the existing economic conditions Yale must choose between helping more students to a degree inadequate for the majority, or assisting fewer and more highly selected students each to a greater...
...assumption that all men are capable of equal perfection, nor that it would be desirable to reduce all men to a common denominator. The best physical specimens then, as now, will become leaders in athletics, just as the best mental specimens will become the greatest scholars. The benefit of the plan will lie in preventing warped development by calling attention to corrective work to meet a student's greatest need, whether in studies, in athletics, or in any other of what are now termed "outside activities...