Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itinerary for the spring trip of "Laugh It Off", includes four benefit performances. The first of these will be given in Newark, New Jersey, at Proctor's Theatre Roof on April 21 for the Princeton Triangle Club Theatre Fund...
...Largely for the benefit of a number of visiting Congressmen, an aircraft demonstration was held in the neighborhood of Fortress Monroe and Langley Field, Virginia. First, airplanes simulated an attack on a dummy battleship marked out on the ground, a large number of small bombs being dropped on the target. Next, airplanes towing sleeve targets were fired on by two three-inch anti-aircraft guns, by six machine guns; three of the larger shells burst so close to the small target as to be counted as scores. The third practice was at night, airplanes attempting to drop flares on Fortress...
...pamphlet published by the CRIMSON in 1923 many of the fields of concentration were described for the benefit of Freshmen by members of those respective departments. Copies of this pamphlet may be procured at Room 2A, University Hall. The revision by Dean Chase is intended as the first of a number of articles to supplement the pamphlet. Fields unmentioned in the pamphlet will be discussed by members of those faculties hitherto underrepresented...
...Palm Beach, at the Club de Montmartre, Alexis Tcherkassky, Russian baritone, got up to sing. He had lent his voice to a benefit for Russian refugees, organized by the Baron von der Hoeven. As Baritone Tcherkassky opened his mouth, someone upset a bottle. Other diners with bottles, imitative, upset theirs. Some, lacking bottles, dropped plates. A red-faced individual at a corner table threw a coin to Tcherkassky; a hundred others with coins, catching the wit of this gesture, also hurled their loose change to him. He sang one song, began another. The uproar continued. But Tcherkassky finished his program...
...Tests made with 124 elementary classes of second, fifth and seventh grades to compare small with large classes of pupils, showed that the large classes were practically as efficient as the small. The most benefit from small classes was derived in the lower grade -P. R. Stevenson, of Ohio State University...