Word: offered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...professors are allowed to offer just such courses as they please. When a man is once admitted into the faculty of one of these universities, it is presumed that he has good sense to give courses where he is able, and, on the whole, the presumption is borne out by experience...
...professors can never fall behind the times, owing to a rather unique custom which has become established in Germany. Any man, after a proper course of study, is entitled to come to a university and offer lectures in opposition to the regular professors, so that, if a young man pursues his investigations farther than the professor, he soon supplants him in the favor of the students...
...offer of a prize of one hundred dollars for an essay on "Immigration" gives an excellent opportunity to members of Philosophy 5 to treat a subject which is growing to be one of the most important before this nation. At no time previous to the present has this question been treated so fully or so broadly by the foremost thinkers of the country, and we are fast coming to a time when some action will be necessary to be taken by the government. This subject, then, is one of special interest, and though competition for the prize is restricted...
...school demanding as much attention and thought as the regular college term. Chemistry, Geology and Physics seem to have been among the most popular courses. There were several advanced courses here as well as elementary courses. Beside the courses in English, History and modern languages which would naturally be offered, there were several courses hardly to be called "popular" in the strict sense of the word but which were taken by a sufficient number of students to warrant giving them another year. Such, for example, was the course in Socialism and Social Problems, where all kinds of current topics were...
...Engineering News Publishing Company of New York has just made its annual offer of prizes for the best graduating theses of '93. The contest is open to 1893 Graduates in any Engineering course of any college in the United States or Canada...