Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact is, that for a German professor ordinarus or well-established extraordinarius with fair prospect of a successful career, the American university salary will offer no possible attraction; and the reason is not far to seek. It may lie partly, to be sure, in the natural disinclination to expatriation so notably characteristic of the German official as well as military and aristocratic class, especially in so far as expatriation is supposed to involve retirement from the arena of advanced investigation. This explanation is, however, unnecessary. The German professor is decidedly better off financially than the American; and we shall deceive...
...prevents these relations from generally becoming more than professional. A few exceptionally good scholars find warm and sympathetic friends in their instructors, and students who are personally introduced to instructors are sure of a cordial welcome. But here the matter ends. I know of hardly any instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances. What I have said, however, should be enough to show one of the reasons...
Again the locker question! Why is it that there cannot be a few more lockers in the gymnasium? Why is it that fifty men are deprived of the most valuable privilege which the college can offer, - the use of the gymnasium? For this is the case, inasmuch as men cannot exercise in their ordinary clothing with benefit, and clothing cannot be left in safety, except under lock and key. The fault does not lie with Dr. Sargent or with the gymnasium officials; of course these gentlemen desire to do all that they can to make their department a credit...
...Friday and Saturday, at one table at least, there was an insufficiency of potatoes; and of the few which were served, two in every three were bad, absolutely bad. Is it not absurd that the famous dining hall of the largest and most respected university in America should offer to its seven hundred boarders potatoes, of which two out of every three are bad? In sober earnest, we think the proper authorities should look into the matter at once, if for no other reason than personal pride, and endeavor to furnish reasonably edible potatoes. They should know, if they...
Attention is called to the fact that the Cobden Club, of England, offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present under-graduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject. For the year 1886-7 the following subjects are suggested: - 1, The duties on wool and woolens; 2, Shall the state assume the control of the railways?; 3, The effect of the legal tender quality on the value of paper money; 4, Profit sharing...