Word: offering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Nelson '16 and Mr. H. W. Rose '19 also offer entertaining stories quite in the Advocate tradition,--good undergraduate writing, unabashed and unashamed, agreeable reading rather than precocious "literature...
These rather dull winter days, before the hockey season for all is well under way, offer an excellent opportunity to interest the sedentary student in boxing. Although once flourishing, this exercise has long languished as a competitive sport. Yet there are professional coaches in the Gymnasium ready to give instruction in it. Why cannot a competitive series of matches be instituted, to seduce the inert undergraduate from his hibernation, and to add zest to the aimless work of the lonely exerciser in the Gymnasium? Medals given to winners of the various classifications would add inducement; limited rounds and heavy gloves...
With the opportunities now offered by our universities, there is no reason why any man should enter the teaching profession half-prepared. Courses in education and pedagogy offer an opportunity for intensive training. And teaching is so important that it may well demand advanced study for a year or two after graduation from college...
Miss George, explaining her offer yesterday, said, "Although I make the offer generally, I expect the keenest response from the larger universities where dramatic departments are already established. Professor G. P. Baker at Harvard takes students with dramatic instinct and develops that talent in his English 47. Yale and Columbia have similar courses, I believe, and Syracuse University has begun one within the past few months. Steps have been taken in the same direction at the University of Minnesota and other institutions. I have been greatly interested in these attempts to encourage intelligent consideration of playwriting among students. Harvard seems...
...want to go both of these one better, and I do not restrict my offer to Harvard. I'll give $1,000 and guarantee a Broadway production. I hope to hear from every college where there is a man who can write a good play. I believe that the best plays of the future are coming from college men, particularly our best comedies, and it is in comedies that I am most interested...