Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago University has recently had a hot argument of a rather unusual sort. Students in the psychology department, and others, have urged that the university should offer a course in the Psychology of Love. A correspondent to the Daily Maroon, with no little eloquence, demands; "Why are teachers silent on the psychology of love? Why is discussion so limited? Probably because the problems of love are felt to be unsolvable...
...Vocational guidance" is a phrase frequently heard nowadays. The colleges are aware that, besides mere "culture", it is their duty to offer the student a chance of considering various careers and choosing for himself before he is turned out to try them by hard experience. Education, it has often been said, is the ability to make the right choice. As yet, the University has made no definite move toward providing such guidance, though various proposals have been heard, and occasional speakers, at the Union and elsewhere, from time to time give useful hints and point out the prospects in certain...
Under these conditions it is only a man that dares, in defiance of popular support, to come out flat-footed for existing conditions and to offer arguments in support of his thesis. This is what Mr. Hoover has done in his refreshingly brief and trenchantly powerful essay entitled "American Individualism...
...training in business management. It is interesting to note that a College for Confidence Men discovered and dismantled last spring in Denver claimed almost exactly these advantages in its defence. By the same argument it could be shown with much truth that burglary as a profession has much to offer Undoubtedly it develops to a high degree unobtrusive attention to details and a deft accuracy of touch...
...genuine need, they soon pass into oblivion and no one but their unlucky sponsors mourns their departure. But if they have any excuse for existence, they take root and thrive without artificial encouragement. Those who have a use for them seek them out and profit by the opportunities they offer; while those who have no concern with their purposes need not be urged to support them...