Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer to exchange its stock for that of Columbus Electric & Power Co. of Georgia and Alabama. (Columbus stock, on the New York curb, jumped from 60 to 120 last month...
TIME'S claim to be the first publication to offer perpetual subscriptions must be either withdrawn or considerably limited by qualifications. Since 1920 or earlier, the New England Historic Genealogical Society has offered a perpetual subscription to its quarterly magazine, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, in connection with a perpetual membership in the Society, for $300. More recently, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has offered perpetual subscriptions to its quarterly magazine with or without perpetual membership in the Society...
...point to all this: to satisfy my curiosity. Is the idea of inheritable subscriptions new? Has any periodical to date adopted the idea? If not here's hoping TIME has the honor of being the first to offer such subscriptions...
...know how "assistants" are chosen, so I cannot offer any remedy for the system, but I can say that an assistant's position should not be the means of any graduate student working his way through for a Ph.D., nor should it be a position for any man who happens to want it who can flash a Phi Beta Kappa key. One does not have to be a scholar to be a teacher...
...enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying to offer in the way of an education will know where to direct his smile when he sees a man stride across the platform to receive his degree with a summa or a high magna but looks in vain for any flash of gold dangling from his watch chain...