Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned universe. Prof. Beers, of Yale, also we learn is writing stories for the Century and the Continent; and last of all it is reported that a Columbia professor has received an offer to become the regular writer of plays for the Madison Square Theatre of New York...
...experiment which has been tried since its foundation by the Johns Hopkins University of providing special instruction in the higher branches, especially to graduate students of other colleges, is one of peculiar interest and value. With its magnificent endowment, this institution has been enabled to offer privileges for the study of specialties not strictly professional which no other university of the country has been able to equal. It is very evident that a university on the plan of Harvard, with its comparatively limited funds and with its multifarious schools and extensive academical department, cannot hope to afford such instruction...
...fair rates any tickets which the members of the senior class cannot use. To keep down the number of such cases as much as possible the committee first gave seniors the opportunity of purchasing less tickets than are in a package. But few men, however, took advantage of this offer. But in case any member wishes to dispose of his extra tickets now, the committee earnestly requests that he will sell them only to members of his own class or to the committee. In this way only can class day be made a success, and every senior owes...
...oral examination, such as is required for honors, would be a great improvement over written examinations. To the objection that the instructors have not time, the remedy is to allow men to offer themselves for examination at different times of the year, whenever they feel themselves ready. There is no reason why the time of holding the examinations should be fixed...
...Memorial seems to be bound to a certain bill of fare that inevitably swings around into the same old notch with each recurring week. The steward and his cooks do not seem to realize the unlimited capacities of their situations or to be aware that innumerable cook books can offer them scores of dishes that are equally inexpensive with the present bill of fare, and are, besides, far more palatable...