Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most confident among the prospective presidential hosts was William Wrigley Jr. (chewing gum). Of the many who have called, only Mr. Wrigley has announced that he is likely to be chosen. "Although I have received no official acceptance of the offer of my summer home, I have been led to believe that Mr. Coolidge favors the proposal and will accept it." Should Mr. Wrigley not have been misled, the President, encamping at Green Gables, Mr. Wrigley's summer mansion at Lake Geneva, Wis., will have the privileges of one yacht, ten master's bedrooms, a private bathing beach...
Michigan. Alfred Owen Crozier of the National Republican Club contributed his summer home, "Wildwood on the Old Indian Trail," near Harbor Springs. Inducements: 300 acres; a new log cabin of Norway pine. Mr. Crozier said the President had termed his offer "most alluring" but that no definite decision had been made...
Announcement that Tutors will be provided for certain fields of Concentration during the Summer School period, was also made yesterday. In order to meet the special needs of a limited number of students, the Summer School will offer tutorial instruction in certain departments. This work is open only to undergraduates in Harvard College, and will be similar in all respects to that given during the regular academic year...
...life and even, sometimes, of love affairs. The aim is to make the relation of tutor and tutored informal, human, and genial. While the former normally has an office in which he may meet his students if, he pleases, many tutors receive them at their rooms, or houses, and offer them such stimulus to geniality as tea and cigarettes (or so I hear). Several of the younger unmarried men are given free quarters in the senior dormitories, with the understanding that they should informally entertain at least once a week not only their own especial students, but other seniors...
...Banks' offer to conduct a checker column in TIME is one which I wish you would accept...