Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...does the general athletic interest slacken after Freshman year? We can now justly assure the graduate that athletic advantages are open to all alike at Harvard. When will we be able to add that they are advantages fully appreciated by all to whom they can and should be of benefit...
...introduce a course in energetic competition if such a course could be established with any degree of practicability. The fact it cannot is the cause for businessmen accepting so gladly a man who has worked his way through college. Unfortunately such a man, as a rule, has lost the benefit which the seclusion of college life offers. He would be the first to acknowledge this handicap. There is, however, a golden mean which should be adopted by each undergraduate. His capacity to learn is developed by his academic pursuits; his ability to compete can be developed in athletics. Athletics...
...diffusing of information among Western and Southern schools apropos to the requirements for admission and departments of the University; creating better facilities for men of those schools to take the entrance examinations; establishing regional scholarships;--all would tend to direct large numbers of men to Harvard which would benefit both the men and the University. No one will deny that the academic side of Harvard is the apotheosis of all educational institutions. Why, then, should the other equally important side of a college education be neglected? W. R. Foss...
...less exalted in its obligations are we not operating to defeat the primary purposes of essential university work as already set forth? In other words, does not a boy, whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit of his ability. Therein, I should say, we exemplify the American university spirit, or, to put it more broadly, the national spirit...
...guide its path. America has its own mission in the world and can go far in the universal promulgation of American ideals but it can accomplish nothing in this way unless it remaking true to those ideals itself. It is with nations as with individuals--We cannot hope to benefit others if we are stripped of the ability to help ourselves...