Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fiske's benefit performance in aid of the Animal Rescue League will be given in the Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Fiske will play in the fourth act of "Becky Sharp" and immediately afterwards in the fourth act of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles." The program will also include recitations by Mr. Holbrook Blinn, and original monologues by Miss Beatrice Herford...
...Fiske and her Manhattan Company will give a benefit performance in aid of the Animal Rescue League in the Hollis Street Theatre on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The program will include the fourth act of "Becky Sharp," followed by the fourth act of "Tess of the d'Aubervilles." Mr. Holbrook Blinn and Miss Beatrice Herford will also furnish part of the entertainment, the former by reciting, and the latter by giving some of her original monologues...
...since one of the Faculty members is in the chair and cannot vote, to make a tie. At such times, when the combined undergraduate and graduate experience of the absent members would be the most persuasive force in the committee, the undergraduates wait till the committee can get the benefit of that experience, and never, in any important matter, take advantage of the small attendance...
...year was that looking toward a modification of the elective system. It has been truly said that the opportunities for education in our universities are now enormous, and that the immediate problem before us is to bring the undergraduate to make the best use of them; for the benefit of a college education to a student consists, not in the abundance of opportunities he neglects, but in those of which he takes advantage. From colleges in different parts of the country have been heard general complaints that students not engaged in professional work have far too little desire for sound...
...would be rendered efficient. Also, when it is considered that in the Boer War we lost $30,000,000 through withdrawals of British carriers from trade, the danger from a war between two foreign nations at present doing our carrying can be imagined. Furthermore, there is a direct financial benefit to be derived from the adoption of a subsidy policy, for by such a policy Americans are admitted to competition with foreigners on an equal basis, while commercial intercourse and trade expansion are fostered. Subsidization means the lowering of rates, the securing of better shipping facilities and the diverting...