Word: reapings
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...hard for him to afford to give up beginning to earn his living as soon as he leaves college, and instead to devote a few more years to his education. Were it not for this generous aid which Harvard is able to hold out, many of those who now reap the great advantages which the university offers in the way of higher education would have to give up their dream of scholarship and content themselves with the education they received in college. It is needless to point out what a difference this would make in the education of a large...
...taken up in succession, two by two, so that instead of diffusing his mental energies among six or eight simultaneous studies, as is the case under the present system of teaching at colleges and Universities, he will concentrate and cover the same ground in the same time and reap a much better result. Under this system, the professor also, being employed in continuously teaching and investigating one subject, will gain the benefit of the same concentration of mental energy...
...prepared by students in advanced courses in these departments. Many of these papers represent a great amount of research and original thought, and are worthy of a wider attention than mere criticism by the instructor under whose charge they are prepared. To give the whole college an opportunity to reap some benefit from such theses the conferences have been established. They ought also to serve as an additional stimulus to the students who have papers to prepare...
...keep alive a thorough-going spirit of manly enthusiasm among the students to act as it were hand in hand with our other advantages here. If, then, athletics are for the students rather than for the world, it seems but fair that the students should reap the benefits of the games. This certainly they can never do unless it is understood that the privileges of athletic contests are granted to them first of all. If athletic games should develop into exhibitions for the eye of the world alone it would be better that they had been abolished, having passed...
...this matter thus elaborately because we think there is a disposition here not always to take every possible means to fulfil an engagement with a preparatory school. It cannot be expected if Harvard leaves it to other colleges to send teams to the preparatory schools that she will reap the benefits...