Word: offered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...explain the error of Mr. Chapman's attitude; the aims and methods of President Eliot and the Corporation stand above such reactionary attacks. Harvard men do not care whether their University has a few students more or less than any other institution in the land, except that large numbers offer large means for spreading and deepening Harvard influence. As to Mr. Chapman's criticism of the Corporation as a mere body of business men, it is sufficient to say that the organization of that body is the same now as it has always been, and that it is just...
...innovation is being tried this year in omitting Greek from the list of required subjects on the qualifying examinations. This does not mean, however, that Greek is not required for a degree at Oxford. Any student who does not offer Greek upon the qualifying examinations, must offer it in the Responsions which are held in Oxford towards the end of September of each year. Since the final election of Rhodes scholars is announced about January first, any man who has not passed in Greek on the qualifying examinations in October will have nine months in which to prepare it before...
...rivalry; and I do not believe that their exaggerated prominence at the present day is to be attributed to a conviction on the part of the undergraduates, or of the public, that physical is more valuable than mental force. It is due rather to the fact that such contests offer to students the one common interest, the only striking occasion for a display of college solidarity...
...offer congratulations to the committee which is managing the dining halls on behalf of the Corporation, on its success with Memorial Hall. That the limit of 600, which had been set experimentally, has been so soon reached, reflects great credit on the accommodation that is being offered...
...University. To make its enterprises successful it needs a large number of enthusiastic and persistent workers from every department. In athletics the new class has the enviable record of 1912, with its four victorious teams, to follow. Undergraduate papers and magazines, musical and dramatic organizations, debating clubs,--all these offer unequalled opportunities for the use and development of special talents. Freshmen cannot enter too early or in too large numbers into the "outside" branches of Harvard life...