Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numbers and the College decided to take their Holworthy room away from the young scholars. According to the records of the Society "... during recent years but few books had been added and very many had been lost and injured, so that at present it was of little or no benefit to the members of the Society, and that for these reasons the Faculty of the College had seen fit to withdraw the use of the room granted for a Library Room after the present year. And that under these circumstances the undergraduate society had voted to distribute their books among...
...large premium above the regular price of the ticket. Box-office employes are notoriously discourteous, seats are old-fashioned and uncomfortable, scarcely a dozen of Manhattan's 76 theatres are air conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild. At the Astor he proposed that money be raised to start a promotion bureau to bring the Theatre and its customers closer together and, incidentally, to fight legislation unfriendly to the stage...
...system of marking. But one genius came through with a suggestion: that each student be given a secret number, which he put on his paper, which, in turn, is handed to a different section man to correct each question. The students all suffer equally from the hard markers and benefit alike from the easy ones...
Both Aristotle and Confucius taught the doctrine of the "Golden Mean", and this age-old truth may very well be applied to the problem of teaching and research. These two functions must be blended into a harmonious whole, if undergraduate instruction and the pursuit of knowledge are to benefit equally. At Harvard the balance is all askew; the pressure on young men to publish, or "perish", is so great that their teaching and tutorial sessions suffer. A man may be taught to lecture in a comparatively short time, but the gift of inspiration and ability to stimulate youth...
...slightly Freudian affinity for guns has been so thoroughly established that it is no great surprise when he shoots his way out of jail to get back to Rose; nor when, finding Rose and Fred together, he conquers his cowardice long enough to face the police without benefit of firearms...