Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...introduced as much comic "business" as an actor in a screaming farce. These things, and the brilliancy of the spectacle, and the delightful music of Dr. Hubert Parry, secured the present success, but it is improbable that another comedy will be produced in the series of classical revivals which bid fair to become a regular institution at Cambridge...
...model in this modern school. The typical young man is enthusiastic, manly and generous, and a policy that destroys the material for class historians and crushes class enthusiasm and college precedent, will repel him from our doors. Our college authorities seem at present to be making an energetic bid for the Oberlin style of student, from which we beg leave to be delivered...
...first sale of the Cooke library recently, in which Harvard, Yale, Brown and other colleges had each a choice of $5000 worth of books, we are informed that Harvard obtained only about $150 worth, most of which were not very valuable. The college did not bid very liberally and obtained some books, duplicates of which are already in the library. Some of the volumes in the Cooke library are very rare and valuable. There will be two more sales, one next fall and the last one next spring, when Harvard will bid more highly and hopes to be more successful...
President Eliot has excited the ire of some religious newspapers. The Guardian delicately observes: "As the maudlin president of Harvard once said in a post-prandial speech." The Christian at Work says: "It is simply untrue that 'seminaries bid against each other for young mendicants.' The language is as slanderous in spirit as it is offensive in form...
...proposes to issue an appeal for means to enable it to enter more fully into competition with the leading universities of the land. The college is well enough endowed to keep quietly on its present course; but it is deemed advisable to increase its accommodations, and to make a bid in its behalf for recognition as a university...