Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...first is: "Will it benefit the class if we decide to wear caps and gowns?" I believe it will, even though all Seniors do not wear them. As has often been pointed out before, in a large class men do not have an opportunity to know their classmates. If caps and gowns are worn, the Seniors are distinguished from the men of the other classes. Last year it was affirmed that the whole plan would fail, if all the members of the class did not wear the caps and gowns. I say that the plan will be successful, if only...
Each graduate is asked to state his opinion as to the benefit or harm resulting from the influence of the elective system in his case, and to answer several more specific questions,--as to the number of courses taken to evade hard work; the effect of the system on strenuousness of application; the opinion of the writer regarding prescribed studies in schools and colleges, and what the studies thus prescribed should be. If the questions meet with general and intelligent response the result will, it is believed, be of great importance in the whole matter of American education...
...stereopticon will be used to show the school in its beginnings and its present quarters. Views of the buildings, classrooms, work-shops, trade school, domestic science and agricultural departments will be given. The Hampton Quartette will sing some old plantation songs, and a collection will be taken for the benefit of the institution. The meeting is open to the public...
...sale, and they would form a very valuable addition to our University collection if they could be secured for it. These nine could probably be purchased for about $1500. Any friend of the University who might by disposed to make a gift of them, would confer a substantial benefit on our Museum...
...series of entertainments for the benefit of the Cambridge Social Union will be given this winter in Brattle Hall on the following dates: Nov. 20, Concert by Miss Beatrice Hereford. Dec. 11, Lecture by Mr. E. Selon Thompson, Jan. 11 Lecture by Mr. T. Hopkinson Smith...