Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard university Bulletin for January 1890 contains extracts from the Corporation records, extracts from the Overseers' records, University notes and a list of accessions by the different college libraries. Among the records of the Corporation are to be noticed the following: the acceptance of the offer of Mr. Nathaniel C. Nash '84 to give the amount needed to complete the botanical sections of the University museum; the receipt of $5,000 as the final installment of Mr. Francis Bartlett's gift of $20,000 for Professor Cook's addition to the University museum; the reappointment of Dudley Allen Sargent...
...devoted to instructing them. It still appears that neither he nor the club pretends to develop men who are not already competent singers. Our suggest on was that the club by forming a thoroughly drilled reserve chorus, by diminishing their number and raising their standard, or otherwise, should offer sufficient inducement in the way of real teaching, to bring out every man of musical abllity in college...
...question of choosing between the bicycle rules of the L. A. W. and of the A. A. U. came up. Notwithstanding an excellent offer from the A. A. U.- provided its rules would be accepted-it was decided to make independent rules and not to join the A. A. U. This action was based on the withdrawal from the N. A. A. A. A. for the purpose of forming a separate and independent organization. Another action of the meeting was the adoption of a resolution providing that the two-mile bicycle race be limited to ordinary wheels. It was suggested...
...American type? Harvard has certain functions to perform, and if they differ from those of a German university, Harvard ought not to be forced to conform to a German standard. Harvard aims to give her students culture in a broad sense, improve their moral character, and not merely offer them a chance to study as German universities do. As for our professors they must soon be given their true rank abroad as our university becomes better known and its organization better understood. That Harvard is rapidly securing recognition in the United States of her leadership among American universities...
...reason why the American schools, should not, like the European schools, educate their pupils in sixteen or seventeen years instead of nineteen. It seems quite possible that Harvard might gain a year at least by exerting her influence upon the larger preparatory schools, some of which already offer a shorter course than the regular, and which could in their turn influence the lower schools. Another year ought to be saved by opening courses in the professional schools to seniors as electives This policy has been adopted toward the Scientific school, and might equally well be extended...