Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow night a group of Harvard students will offer their services to the Ballet as extras in a performance at the Opera House, thus emulating the record of ten Yale students who acted as Chinese Coolies for the Ballet at New Haven...
Harvard has always rendered small services to the intelligentsia of the Metropolitan District, but has had little to offer the poorer classes. There have been lectures on Emerson for the good ladies of Brattle Street and lectures on babies for enterprising mothers within walking distance of Longwood Avenue. Yet, as Cambridge has become industrialized, whole generations have grown up, surrounded, bewildered, flaunted by the organization that is Harvard. They have been ignorant of the Oversoul and too busy to visit the Medical School; Harvard has offered them little and their children nothing. Yet these thousands of underprivileged youngsters have kept...
Three fear-crazed salesgirls stared dumbly at their personnel manager. They could not understand at first that he was saying their only chance for life was to wrap the blankets around their heads, dash downstairs through the flames. He was seen to offer to lead the way. The three salesgirls took the blankets and followed for a short distance, then their nerves cracked. Although brave Louis Frichet kept pleading with them and trying to hold them back, all three salesgirls finally, rather than face the flames, leaped off the roof to death. Alone with his blanket, the personnel manager began...
...competent writing and first-rate acting, the vogue for historical plays in general is really a commentary on the times. With war, fascism, strikes, depressions bearing down on all sides, playwrights and audiences alike tend to be confused, disturbed, jittery, and plays laid in the settled past offer a ready form of escape...
...fact that M.I.T. is offering several good technical and mathematical courses in this subject is far from being a spur to Harvard's Department of Geography. On the one hand, fears that a meteorological course would only be a poor second to the courses at Tech., and, on the other hand, the knowledge that no one could teach an elementary course in the subject as well as the late Professor Ward of Harvard, have persuaded members of the Department to omit five vital courses. Certainly Professor Brooks is more than competent to give an introductory course, and failing him, there...