Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brooks House, where undergraduates "catch" "religious experience." The other, by H. Y. Masten '10, narrates the adventures of Cambridge astronomers in "photographing the heavens" and supplies information, such as it is, about the astronomical instruments, their cost and equipment. The exploration and exploitation of Darkest Harvard for the benefit of readers of the Illustrated is without a doubt a worthy mission for a college periodical. But the mission must fail if the explorers, unlike Mr. Andrew Lang, who wrote about Oxford, persist in dullness of substance...
...Boston was held at the Hotel Somerset last evening. Nearly three hundred members and guests were present. Speakers not only from other New England colleges but also from England gave expression to their sympathy and cordial interest in the work that is being done at Harvard for the ultimate benefit of all educational institutions and of the nation. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 president and introduced Governor E. S. Draper, who spoke of Major Higginson as "the truest Harvard man of the Harvards," and characterized the dinner as unique in being devoted to Harvard University as an intellectual and educational...
...subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these subjects, and the examiners would thus be enable to judge of their intellectual characters. Finally, not the least benefit of such a system is the fact that it would necessitate of itself the kind of training in school that is useful in college and in the world at large--and this is more than any one can claim for the present system. JUNIOR...
...second and final performance of "The Pageant of the Tree," which is being given for the benefit of the Fathers' and Mothers' Club of Boston, will take place in the Boston Opera House this afternoon at 2 o'clock. It is one of the most elaborate productions of its kind ever undertaken in Boston for in carrying out the program some six hundred people will appear on the stage. Twenty students of the University are taking part in the production...
...pageant for the benefit of the Fathers' and Mothers' Club of Boston will be given at the Boston Opera House this evening at 8 o'clock and tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Work in preparation for this occasion has been in progress for over a month and the actual work of drilling for the various displays and dances has been carried on for almost the same length of time. The pageant is one of the most elaborate things of its kind ever undertaken in Boston. Mrs. L. J. Barber, of Boston, has had entire charge of the rehearsals...