Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This sort of covert attack under the guise of a news item cannot fall to have an injurious effect on the standing and reputation of the University. For this reason, any steps to bring about a cessation of this variety of journalistic activity would confer a very real benefit on Harvard...
...scheme will increase the representation in College from the country at large. It will serve to bring the University in closer touch with the whole public school system, and should prove a benefit both to the high schools and to Harvard...
Through Col. C. L. Peirson '53, $861.50 has been turned over to the University Corporation for the benefit of the College Library. The money is the balance of a fund for a memorial to the twentieth Massachusetts regiment of volunteer infantry, which served through the civil war, and in whose ranks were a number of Harvard graduates...
...University might, then, attempt to make its requirements conform to the curricula of the public schools. That an increased number of students from such institutions would be a benefit to the College is apparent from the investigations which have shown that a preponderance of students of the "preparatory" school type is detrimental to the scholarship of Harvard College as a whole...
...Again, take the question of conservation of our natural resources, of preserving our forests, our water supply, our soil, and not only of preserving them, but of seeing that they are preserved for the use of our people as a whole and not exploited merely for the benefit of a few people of great wealth. It is by no means difficult to make speeches and deliver lectures on that subject, nor to hold conventions in its favor and applaud declarations in favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet...