Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There are a number of improvements that might be made in the Co-operative Society, and we would like to offer to its notice one or two suggestions. There is no apparent reason why a man's payment should be deferred ten days or more after the sale of his second-hand books or furniture, and we are unable to see what is to prevent the payment of the money as soon as the article is sold. Everybody knows when it is likely to be bought, and there seems to be no necessity at all for waiting...
...lectures will first make suggestions about certain modern ethical doctrines in their bearing upon religion, and will state the case of one doctrine in particular; then the inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories will be passed in review under this head, notably the modern doctrine of progress as an universal law, and the doctrines in general that regard the world as showing us some kind of historical process. Then another view will be suggested...
...furnish the company any further negatives without a guarantee that they would not be harmed. This the Heliotype Company could not give when four pictures were to be printed on a page, and so the $18 album, containing two pictures on a page, was the only thing they could offer. Your correspondent certainly labored under a misunderstanding when he said that he was informed at Pach's studio that no photographs could be ordered after Feb. 1, inasmuch as the "negatives were given to the Heliotype Company, and were destroyed in making the heliotypes." No photographer would ever surrender...
...been cut down to a size that rendered it impossible to secure cabinet pictures from them. Therefore we must give up the idea of a heliotype album for $12. I immediately conferred with the Heliotype Company as to the best course to be pursued, and all they can offer is the large album, containing two pictures on a page, and, of course, twice the number of leaves. The pictures will not be so crowded, and the album will be much handsomer and a more suitable souvenir in every way. They also agree to put upon the cover any design...
President Eliot of Harvard says that "the decline of the ministry is a recognized fact of the last few decades." President Eliot should offer some member of the ministry an increased salary in case he would like to see how mistaken even a college president...