Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remain here where the reputation of the Law School has risen with the growing pre-eminence of its Dean. It is grateful that Dean Pound is not to abandon the work which he undertook nine years ago, even in the face of so advantageous and weighty an offer...
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School announced yesterday that he had definitely decided not to accept the offer of the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin. Dean Pound said that he declined Wisconsin's offer because he felt that he had made law his life work and that it would be unwise to change...
...offer of the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin was very attractive both to my wife and to myself. The Regents offered everything in a material way that one could ask, and very much more than one could expect here. Also Mrs. Pound and I are Westerners, both of us graduates of a state university, and both of us believers in the Western system of co-educational, state universities. I recognize the great work to be done in Western state universities, and its paramount importance for the country. I recognize also that there could be no better place...
Professor J. H. Beale '82 in commenting on Dean Pound's deciding to remain at the Law School said that he "was very much pleased because it was his place and he belonged in it." Professor Beale also thought that he was turning down a good offer...
Distance and space might be raised as objections to this scheme. But even these might be easier task-masters than brutal Britain. At least, it would be a fine thing for Harvard to make such an offer. It would be for God, for Liberty, and for Ireland...