Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletics cannot exist for the benefit of the man who excels and the man who watches. In fact the latter class must be reduced. Athletics must be placed on such a basis that there will be room for the University teams and for scrub teams of all kinds. The man who regards competitive sport as a means of obtaining good exercise should be encouraged as much as possible...
...noble brood who did not give up their lives on the field of honor are returning. With sober face, Harvard bids them back. She realizes that they have gained in power and wisdom that which would have taken her years to give them. But for their own benefit she is encouraging them to return to the detailed study of facts upon which success in life is based. At the same time she has made it as easy as possible for them to enter the courses which the University offers. And now, as a fitting recognition of her trust...
...true forms, stripped of interested prejudice and popular fallacies. The large variety of national and international questions available for consideration assures an abundance of excellent subject matter. Not only will members of the groups increase their understanding of affairs of current discussion in the press, but they will derive benefit from the informal association with the Faculty leaders who otherwise may enter but vaguely into their lives. In addition, the part which each may take in open discussion will afford a valuable sort of training to the individual. In fact, the profit received will be so well worth the time...
...many times a Senior in reviewing his College career has thought of the opportunities he might have seized, of the benefit he might have derived from the courses he happened to follow. Such things, however, are behind him, and he seldom reconsiders them. He followed a fixed course of training, distributed and concentrated his labors as the rules required, and he is given a certificate at the end to show that he is an educated man, which, after all was the specific thing he worked for. Why should he investigate further...
...other similar activities. On the contrary it actually is an immense pleasure, that has been recognized by many of the leading men in College, to work with and develop these live American youths who are soon to be our governing citizens. Not only do the boys themselves derive immense benefit, but the undergraduate receives an insight into human nature that would otherwise be hard to obtain...