Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening of the term there are as many persons who must furnish rooms, and who for the most part go to these same dealers for the necessary furniture. For the dealers, this is an ideal situation; those leaving college are helpless and must accept what the dealers offer; the new arrivals are almost as helpless and must pay them whatever is asked. The trade between individual students is so small as to have no effect on the general situation; that carried on through the medium of janitors is just about as disadvantageous to the students as is the trade with...
...includes much more than this. A bureau run on such principles could not fail to be of service, and would be almost certain to succeed. Advantages from such a system would accrue to those leaving college, and to those new arrivals in need of furniture; in addition, it would offer employment to a number of students who could be engaged in carrying on its business. Its chief benefit, of course, would be a reduction in college expenses; and any reduction, however small, would be most welcome...
...would indeed be surprising if Penn should come in ahead of Annapolis on the Severn River. But not a few were surprised last week when Penn beat Yale, and it is not outside the realm of possibility, therefore, that Penn will defeat the navy, while she is sure too offer a good race. Annapolis, however, has remarkable crew with six of the Olympic champions in their seats again this year, and it will take all of Penn's ability and spirit to make her concede defeat...
...such a course one gets the full advantage of the Oxford tutorial system, and a sense of collaboration and competition with one's fellows in the same job which is hard for us here to realize. It is choosing the best and the most distinctive training that Oxford can offer, and such thorough grounding in a particular field broadly conceived, as none of us can afford to scorn. With energy and ambition one can take "schools"--the final honor examinations--at the end of two years, and devote the remaining year to research...
Educationally too Oxford has much to offer him. Most Americans who enter as undergraduates are excused from the work of the first year and begin at once on an "Honor School" a broad course of reading and study in some branch of learning carried on for two full years under the personal direction of a "tutor." Among these schools the oldest and most famous is Literae Humaniones (Classics, and Philosophy). Others are Modern History, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, English and Modern Languages. After two years at one of these the student is tested by a series of comprehensive examinations...