Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very fact that a beneficial change has been aimed at is reason for encouragement. Investigations can not be called futile if they result in the remedy of errors. Inasmuch as the recent discussions have caused general condemnation of our lack of co-operation and progress, any attempt to benefit conditions must be encouraged. So long as Secretary Baker tries to eliminate proven faults, he will be heartily supported...
...principal objections to the closing plan were, first, that a short closing would only make it possible to shut up the recitation halls, for the dormitories would all have to be heated for the benefit of students who could not go to their homes, and second, that the war work being done in the various colleges required the maintenance of the laboratories and certain libraries. It was pointed out that many fuel-saving plans are already in force in the various institutions...
...Representatives and then to the President for ratification. If it is passed it will open a wide field for the development of effective training in the larger colleges of the country, and offer great possibilities for men to remain in college and receive at the same time the benefit of instruction in a perfected...
...tends to show that those men whose duty is to manage the military preparation have not altogether justified our trust in them. Errors are pointed out and discussed, in order to have them remedied. Not from malice nor from political prejudice do we try to discover faults, but the benefit by their elimination. At the same time, however, dissatisfaction over one subject causes un-intentional blindness to the merits of others, as we are silently contented to make few comments on beneficent results, or because a steady success attracts only casual attention, we over-emphasize the mistakes. There do exist...
...following colleges through the secretary of their alumni associations or through other officials have pledged their support to the rally which will be held for the benefit of the American University Union in Paris...