Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps there is some good reason why the Phillips Brooks House ignores the possibilities which the Harvard Square urchins offer. It may be because whereas in Roxbury and else-where there are already well equipped settlement houses, Harvard Square has none in its vicinity. If that is the case an appeal to the civic pride of the neighborhood would not be unprofitable...
...first place, there are limits to the usefulness of the deans and the faculty advisors. They cannot, because of the nature of their positions, know intimately all of the students for whom they are responsible. In many cases, students do not give them an opportunity to offer the advice, which, nevertheless, may be much needed. On the other hand, a fellow student can be approached much more easily and on a more friendly basis; particularly in regard to matters seemingly too insignificant for discussion with a member of the faculty...
...writers on football, has pointed out the absurdity of comparing scores as a means of predicting the outcome of a game. But there seems to be still a number of people who put a good deal of faith in them. At least, they put enough faith in them to offer the tremendous odds of 5 to 4 in favor of Yale. Certainly no Harvard man puts any faith in such comparison, but it will do no harm to look at some of the facts behind the numerical scores...
...four years at college he only spent one in the Freshman Dormitories. But that one year was enough to make him forever a marked man. Day by day he absorbed what food the college had to offer day by day the quaint manners of the Dining Halls worked upon him their subtle influence until he had made them his own. There they remained to be interpreted by the world at large...
...Rogers' poem called a "Ballad of Errant Vespers" is not only pleasantly free from the fads of current writing, but it seems to the reviewer to possess genuine literary quality in a higher degree than anything else that these pages have to offer. The conception is original and imaginative, the movement direct and easy; rhythm, language, and sound are adroitly suited to the ideas. Above all, the verses are distinguished by that rare and precious characteristic, spontaneity...