Word: benefitted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...placing its experts and the benefit of its research at the disposal of the group of international experts on international law to meet at Cambridge late in February, the Faculty of the Harvard Law School is in line with a growing tendency to give scholarship everyday usefulness. The CRIMSON commented recently upon the way in which Professor Chafee, speaking against capital punishment, demonstrated the usefulness of a professor in a legislative body. It will be also remembered that Professor Frankfurter took a prominent part in clarifying the legal situation involved in the Sacco-Venzetti case...
However worthy be the objective of making fraternities more of a source of benefit to the College than they have been in the past, it is feared that the importance of this series of lectures has been overemphasized. The idea of advantages for the socially elect, which has always prevailed and is contrary to the object of these lectures in included in the proposed plan. It is stated that, although there will be interfraternity hospitality in that members of all other fraternities are invited to attend the lectures at Alpha Chi Rho, a ruling of the Interfraternity Council forbids Freshmen...
...evident, then, that most of the two classes of undergraduates who would derive greatest benefit from the discussion of undergraduate problems is excluded. Freshmen and Sophomores, with their college careers still ahead, are the ones who need guidance more than upperclassmen. Fraternities in their commendable effort toward achieving a Utopian ideal seem to be hampered by their own exclusiveness...
Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany, eyed last week, for the first time in his life, a cinema. It was shown for his especial benefit at the censor's office. Its name was Waterloo. President von Hindenburg asked whether anyone had been hurt in the filming of the battle scenes, smiled when reassured there were no real casualties...
Among historians Dr. Taylor's studies are the standard works on the history of ancient and medieval intellectual life. Philosophers turn to his books not only to profit by his researches but to obtain the benefit of his own interpretations. To the general public his writings offer an intellectual stimulus only equaled by his delightful style. His works are among the few that are both significant to the expert and interesting to the layman...