Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is the question of the communistic confiscation of property--one of the most difficult problems that the Genoa conference is now facing. It is beyond reason to expect American shippers to reestablish trade relations with Russia with the Bolshevist blockade still in operation. Russia has nothing to offer, her credit is no good, and the risk incurred by the shipper is too great...
...articles in the New York "Evening Post" on American colleges offer a generous supply of food for thought; the last deals with the influence of family in college--an influence found to be very great. What Mr. Gavit, the author of the articles, means by family, "is a complex of traditions, habits, ambitions" which makes the home atmosphere of far-reaching importance in the success of the student. And Mr. Gavit quite rightly criticises the family--that is, the hypothetical average family--because it does not set standards of culture, or because it coddles too much, or because it does...
Clear it is that a college can not be run on the same principle as a University; conditions in American life make it necessary for the college to do more than offer opportunity and to insure the students' realization of those opportunities. This realization should not be brought about by compulsion, but it should be more general than at present. And insofar as the college provides general and genuine, ontato, cj utssorafrwi,a eral, and genuine, contact, just so far will the students take advantage of it; in the number who do can be measured the degree in which...
...point noted from last year's speech is vitiated by the admission that the central unions have no control over the actions of the local labor organizations or their members in regard to walk-outs. When men refuse to obey the commands of their leaders or to accept the offerings of the employer, there seems no way left to offer justice to either side or preserve the advantages of collective bargaining...
...attention which it is the pride of many professors to devote to their students. It is not strange, therefore, if not a few of those who take the course feel that they have to a certain extent been cheated out of the best which the course has to offer, particularly in the direction of personal contact with their instructors...