Word: offerings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ervin '08 then took up the subject of college periodicals. These present a side of college activity quite as important as that furnished by athletics, and offer abundant opportunity for broader fields of occupation, and for making many firm friendships...
...occasions offer to undergraduates more opportunities for serious thought than the filling out of their list of courses at the beginning of the College year. A course of study, which in many institutions is wholly or in part determined and prescribed by their officers, is here worked out by each individual student in accordance with his tastes and aims. This almost unqualified freedom of choice, which is peculiarly Harvard's has often been criticised by those who doubt the ability of the average undergraduate to think intelligently for himself. They can no doubt, cite actual cases of misdirected energies...
...Professor Schofield has here explained clearly the aims and scope of the department and the liberal spirit that underlies it. Two papers devoted to the Young Instructor, who is apparently a very disturbing character, analyze from different points of view the causes and results of his existence, and offer suggestions regarding him which will doubtless be helpful in bringing about the ultimate solution of the difficulty...
...been decided to offer a consolation cup (entry fee $1) for the second eight to qualify. Their scores were as follows: P. Grant '08, 89; M. McArthur '10, 89; T. Clark '08, 90; A. W. Ingalls '09, 91; H. Sutphin '07, 91; H. F. McNeil '08, 92; G. Minot '08, 92; H. Green '08, M. Hale 2L., and C. S. Brown, Jr., '08, tied...
...from me, however, to insinuate even indirectly that the rights and privileges of the gentlemen who officiate there are not indeed supreme and absolute. But I should wish to offer a single suggestion: that if their bearing toward the noisome student who infests their domain should ever by any cataclysmic regeneration of their nature approach a reasonable condescension as its limit, the approach should be very gradual, so that we might be able, by great effort, to adjust ourselves to such a revolutionary change in the life of the Harvard student as this regeneration would cause...