Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructor how to interest his classes. The petition which is now being circulated, asking that Dr. Laughlin be retained, is receiving a very large number of signatures, and it is certainly to be hoped that the corporation will in this case acquiesce in the decision of the students and offer to Dr. Laughlin sufficient inducements to continue in his present position...
President Gilman complains of the small salaries offered to professors. "The professor today has little to look forward to when he becomes too old to lecture or when he is ill. It is suicidal for our institutions to take second-rate men when first-rate men can be obtained." It is one of the weaknesses of our colleges that they are unable to offer greater inducements to able men to take positions as professors. A man of ability who gives up his business or profession for a professor's chair is often called upon to make a great sacrifice, which...
...Robinson, the trainer, has received an offer from the Columbia Athletic Association to train the athletes of that college for the Mott Haven cups. The New York Athletic Association will also come in for a share of his instruction. He begins his duties in New York on the 12th of April. Excellent references have been received by Mr. Robinson from the New York Athletic Association and others, and he is well recommended to fill the position of trainer at Columbia...
...founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities will be expected to act as feeders and to provide the necessary instruction for passing the examinations. If the universities fail to offer this instruction, special schools will spring up and will draw largely from the classes who would naturally support the colleges. In view of these facts, the strange apathy prevailing at Harvard on this subject seems to be ill-advised. Harvard and other universities will soon be called upon to furnish...
...self at the next moment. That is to say, that morality is defined as a perfectly impersonal view of all conscious life and as action based upon such a view. The lecturer then spoke of the relation of the real world to the moral law. Does the real world offer any support to us in doing right? that is, what aspect of reality helps us to fix our attention on our neighbor's experiences as being just as valuable...