Word: offered
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...sole reply to this generous offer...
...must have got rich by this time. Nobody knows how many Credit Mobilier shares they own. They are one of the drawbacks of student life, but we must submit to them as to so many other extortions. It is with a view to making this submission easy that I offer the following plan. It is the joint production of myself and chum. We thought it carefully out in accordance with the canons of taxation. It is arranged, you will notice, so that
Very likely the critic is not able to take full advantage of all the opportunities now offered. With the present system of chums and compulsory recitations few are enabled to do as much as they demand of themselves in preparation for the class-room, much less can they accomplish all that the Professors can offer. But since such drawbacks exist as compulsory recitations, and the other disturbing influences of college, with which there are none not somewhat familiar, is it too much to ask of our professors, that they make their class-room as entertaining as possible; that they impress...
...find upon the official bulletin-board the following important notice: "Students are reminded that an engagement with a dentist is not accepted by the Faculty as a sufficient excuse for an absence from a college exercise. J. W. HARRIS, Sec. H. C." We think that an agent who would offer, about this time, "The Manual of Filling and Pulling," or "Every Man his own Dentist," would meet with as much success among students as the peripatetic vender of "The Science of the New Life...
...about the quality of the teaching. Promises made to the eye may be so imperfectly kept as to be broken to the hope. We have before us the prospectus of a college that has but five regular professors, and yet the curriculum is substantially that of Yale, besides the offer of a special course for post-graduates." Our limited space prevents our copying half so much as we should like, but we cannot help quoting two of the things which, according to the author, a catalogue should be expected not to do. "It should not neglect to distinguish between resident...