Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this high ground the Eli position is of course impregnable. No short, "intensive course, operated on business hours" of Mr. Babson's devising could pretend to offer the acquaintance with philosophy and art, science and literature, the understanding of the relation of knowledge to life, the broad philosophic outlook on problems of thought and conduct, which it is the peculiar attribute of the liberal college to develop. To follow the eloquent flight of the News editorial, "College book learning is primarily instruction in where to get and how to appreciate not only pure in formation, but all the finest ideas...
...bulk of college students--not the best students in the finest colleges--but the mass of students in the general run of institutions from one end of the country to the other, are not seeking these things. They are not getting them. In theory the liberal college has to offer young men a certain intellectual outlook, a certain type of intellectual power. Many students have no desire for, nor even appreciation of these ends. It is a question whether they have the capacity to attain them. In failing on this ground, the college often takes away those humbler virtues...
Since the arrival of the cafeterias and small restaurants around Harvard Square the public bowling alleys have been forced out of existence with the result that the offer of the Colonial Club gives students in the University the privileges of the only bowling alleys situated near the College...
...students who intend to avail themselves of the offer of the Colonial Club should leave their names with the doorman or the newsstand at the Union. If sufficient interest is shown in the project it is probable that the Union will organize tournaments in bowling such as have previously been held in squash and billiards...
...itself a rigid limit of seven days in which to beat down Secretary Mellon's terms, and departed in dudgeon when "Wizard" Caillaux was unable to do much more than exasperate everybody during that period. He took back to France, as everyone knows, only a stopgap U. S. offer to accept $40,000,000 a year for five years as a full discharge on the interest of the French debt for those years. The Painlevé Cabinet, in which M. Caillaux was Finance Minister, fell (TIME, Nov. 9, Dec. 7) and the stopgap offer has not been heard...