Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Village lay sprawling across barren ridges and hillsides. In the compounds, some 22,500 desperate anti-Communist Chinese and North Korean P.W.s were killing time, giving one another anti-Communist classes and pep talks, chipping makeshift daggers from broken urinals, shouting "Death to Mao the Dog Communist!" for the benefit of passersby...
...Divinity School can benefit the University without compulsion, take the example of the Law School. It is an institution for professional training and research. Its influence on the thinking of the University rises and falls with the value of the work done there and the fame of the men teaching there. Yet students with no interest in the law can, and do, ignore everything the Law School accomplishes. So can it be with religion and the Divinity School...
...varsity cheering team--which without benefit of spring practice, has been plagued by injuries--has definitely lost a fine sophomore letterman for the season...
...oppose the slightest twist of emphasis on the part of the Administration. This is not extraordinary; each individual is convinced that his method of saving the world and the University from itself is the best. To change anything, an innovator must convince all divergent groups that they will benefit in the long run from what is new, that no fence, no matter how dazzling, will stay white if the owner leaves it alone...
...still-to-be-justined passion for progressive education to reject the writing method preferred by the civilized world and to substitute a system that bears a striking similarity to the crude hieroglyphics of the ancient Phoenicians. The world isn't apt to move back for Brookline's benefit; so it would be more sensible for Brookline to get into step with the world...