Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outside of the financial benefit accruing to the Endowment Fund, such a trip would undoubtedly raise the name of the University throughout the country. In times past, Harvard was content to rest on its worth alone. Those who came to test that worth were welcome, but no effort was made to encourage their coming. As a consequence, only the ones who lived nearby did come here, and the charge of sectionalism was made against the University. In the last fifteen years, due to the work of the Harvard Clubs, the cause for the prejudice was largely overcome. But the words...
...rates as an engineering firm. The cry has always been raised to make education more practical; to make it more nearly conform to later requirements of the outside world. In no institution does this state of affairs come to pass more nearly than in a scientific professional school. The benefit of this consulting system to Technology will lie in bringing it still closer to the industrial world. The teaching staff, even more than heretofore, will know exactly what is required of newcomers in engineering branches, and can teach accordingly...
...afternoon. Tickets for this performance are on sale at Herrick's and the Co-operative Branch Store at $2, $1.50, $1, and 75 cents. "Primerose," the 34th annual play of the Cercle Francais, is by Gaston de Caillavet and Robert de Flers, and it to be given for the benefit of the American Committee on Devastated France...
Improvements and inventions in industry today are being used for the benefit of a small minority--the employers and employees in the particular business in which the improvement is installed. During the reign of free competition in the nineteenth century it was generally assumed that the employer had a right to all the profit he could make. Faced by a mass of competitors he could not boost the price and thereby make the public pay. But with the growth of organized labor came a demand from the workers that all payment should be at a standard rate, and hence that...
That inventors should receive good rewards from their inventions cannot be denied, for without inventions modern business methods would never have been possible. But it is equally undeniable that the public has a right to share in the improvements. A diminishing cost of production must benefit the consumer. In order to safeguard him, the public must make itself heard above the wranglings of labor-capital disputes...