Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of the Navy Wilbur served notice on the First (Senior) Class to the Naval Academy that the Navy Department would not consider any resignations which its members might offer upon graduation next June. Not only that; he sent word that no resignations would be considered from any of them within two years. The reason for this policy is simple: last June, many graduates resigned; during the year, a large number of naval officers resigned. The action was necessary to prevent a dearth of officers. To those who may wish to resign, the Secretary's letter bearing these tidings...
...motley group stepped a man of older years, George R. Nutter, a Harvard graduate, President of the Boston Bar Association. Circumstances forced him to speak in the manner of a tragedian uttering an aside?addressing the 700, but speaking to the window. He urged Dean Pound to refuse the offer of the University of Wisconsin, asserted that it was to emphasize this request that the 700 stood in the cold beneath. Said he: "Dean Pound is making a choice between scholarship and administration. The profession of the Law needs a scholar today more than ever before...
Next day, said the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate paper: ". . . Dean Pound's offer from the University of Wisconsin is a trumpet blast. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that undergraduates await Dean Pound's decision almost as eagerly as the Law Students. . . . Many of these undergraduates plan to enter the Law School themselves and there is, in part, a selfish interest. . . . Undergraduates join the men of the Law School in hoping that Dean Pound will choose scholarship as his portion...
This is the greatest honor which Italy has to offer to prominent jurists in foreign countries. At present there are only six foreign fellows of the academy, and the place now awarded to Dean Pound was formerly occupied by Otto Geirke, the internationally prominent German jurist, whose death was announced recently...
Dean Pound's determination to refuse the offer made by the Regents at the University of Wisconsin came as more or less of a surprise to many people. Both "The Nation" and "Time" in speaking of the offer by the Madison authorities seemed to take it for granted that he had virtually accepted the offer...