Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefit of future chairmen of boards of directors and prospective senators the course is adding some brief instruction in public speaking for the first time this year. The theory behind this move is sound even if the execution may be slightly disconcerting for the freshmen involved. Beyond this slight change the course remains the same unwieldy monster which causes so much lost sleep in the Dormitories along the Charles...
...imagine a greater obstacle in the successful development of the athletics-for-all policy than insufficient facilities in such indispensable requisites as locker rooms, showers, etc. Dr. Richards and his assistants, the visiting teams, the coaches, not to mention all the minor sports and class athletic teams, would benefit from modern and enlarged quarters. We can hardly expect perfection immediately, but it is heartily hoped that before many moons pass the University authorities will be announcing plans for a new field house...
...enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players at Harvard was for the benefit of the onlooker, but what good are the figures when no spy-glass can discern them unless the play is within a few yards? The Associated Press is not to be blamed for discovering one Barry in the Harvard squad: the wonder is that the newsmen spotted the players...
...sing-song auto horn throughout the length of Mt. Auburn Street just as the majority of the residents of Randolph, Claverly and the other Mt. Auburn buildings are about to surrender themselves to the soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune of a thousand mixed auto horns...
Accommodating 255 scribes and the attendant telegraphers, charters, spotters, announcers, photographers, and radio broadcasters, the new press box presents an example of sales psychology much to the benefit of the University. Those who have scribbled over wet and trickling sheets by light a borrowed match or flickering kerosone torch while the chill gloom of a rare Scotch mist engulfed the receding shadows of the stands have much to be thankful for in the recently completed press...