Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clubs in the University interested in the general subject of public speaking. A resolution was passed to the effect that the present conditions of debating in the University warranted some step being taken for the establishment of a forum wherein Harvard men could discuss University questions for the benefit of the student body. In accordance with this resolution a committee of five men was appointed to draw up a tentative federation system of civic and debating club interests. The form of the proposed organization will be submitted to each of the component clubs. It may be accepted, amended, or rejected...
...their friends, are cordially invited to a dinner to be held in the Hotel Somerset next Tuesday. The dinner is to be given by the Chamber of Commerce in honor of the sons of members and their friends, and its purpose is to give these young men the benefit of meeting as companions some of the most representative men and finest public speakers of Boston...
...voluntary work for punters, drop-kickers, and place-kickers which began yesterday afternoon, will be continued the rest of the week. Practice will begin at 3 o'clock and H. B. Sprague '11 will have charge of the work. This practice will be of much benefit to all men, especially centres and quarterbacks, as a great deal of the regular spring practice must be spent in learning the new rules...
...University gymnastic team will give an exhibition this evening at 8 o'clock in the Phillips Exeter Academy's gymnasium. This exhibition like the one last year is for the benefit of the Exeter track team. It will consist of work on the flying rings, horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, and in tumbling and pyramid building. The gymnastic team has developed with remarkable rapidity since the work began in the fall under the direction of Y. F. Evans 2G. Although there are no exceptionally brilliant gymnasts on the team, there are more men doing high class work than usual...
...truth of it has never been demonstrated. On the contrary, the friends of the College believe Harvard has brought to Cambridge not only very great intellectual and intangible advantages which are none the less real because they can not be measured in dollars and cents, but also the material benefit of taxable property; in other words, that the amount of taxable real and personal property which has been attracted to Cambridge by Harvard University and would not be there if Harvard were not there, exceeds the amount which would exist if the land now occupied by the College had been...