Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggested that the award be made to the essay that offers the best suggestion for the benefit of the University and the undergraduates. The query is, whether some new intellectual leadership, of a supreme nature, might be of service to the undergraduates? All the branches of the subject are with reference to such service. Writers for the prizes are invited to consider whether the present cost of education might well be lowered, whether inexpensive education would widen the usefulness of Harvard, and whether the introduction of a larger number of intellectual students, of the old fashioned kind, would help...
...Student Council has received numerous inquiries as to the proper date for wearing straw hats. Though the Student Council considers such a question to be quite outside its province, it publishes the following for the benefit of the inquirers...
...sacred trust on the part of the College authorities. But such is not the case. The office is bound by no agreement relative to the publicity of a man's true academic standing. It is an accepted theory that a man comes here primarily to obtain as much benefit from his courses as possible. If, therefore, by any alteration of curriculum, the authorities can increase the present amount of that benefit, if follows that they are merely helping students toward what is acknowledged to be the main object in attending College...
Religion is at the present time becoming more and more humanistic in its application--and social service is another word for a laboratory course in human nature. No man can rightfully say that he has known or tried to benefit man until he has seen specimens of his own species that need aid--not aid always of substantial nature--but the moral and mental aid that an educated man can give his uneducated brothers...
...Arts, and the development of the exchange professorships, form a fairly complete list of the most significant educational innovations of less than two years' activity. Closely allied with these achievements are the projected chemistry buildings, the dedication of the new Dental School, and a closer relation for mutual benefit between Harvard and the municipal authorities of Cambridge. Every one of these institutions is worthy of the highest praise, particularly the altered entrance requirements and the modification of the elective system. Both will exert a very direct beneficial influence: the first will at once open Harvard to men thoroughly trained...