Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refusal of the University of Southern California to pay him $10,000 for seven "conferences": not lectures. Tagore is reliably reported to have declined to lecture under any circumstances and to have spurned an offer of $5,000 for the "conferences...
What augurs best for Mayor Walker as a candidate to succeed himself is the almost complete absence of a cohesive and well-directed Opposition. New York City Republicans are at a loss for a suitable nominee, are even ready.to fuse with independent Democrats if they have a man to offer. The only Democrat who stands forth seems to be John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, twice Mayor before Walker. Republicans were last week actually, quite seriously considering allegiance to Hylan, whose vote-following is unquestionably larger than the outstanding Republican possibility, short, swart Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia...
...Freshman track team travels to Exeter where it will meet the school boy contingent. It is expected that the preparatory school men will offer only weak opposition, and that the Freshmen will take the meet without difficulty...
...tutorial system is to allow the student contact with specially trained scholars whose knowledge of their subjects consists in more than an ability to compile an acceptable list of authorities the advantages of the Oxford plan cannot be denied. The specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic or enthusiastic appreciation...
Manhattan is crowded with theatre-ticket agents, scalpers. Agents fill telephone and last-minute orders, make a regular service charge. Scalpers offer last-minute tickets for whatever exorbitant prices can be obtained...