Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring games, and in some cases make the team, who have had absolutely no previous experience in track athletics. Indeed, if only the members of last year's team could be depended on, there would be little prospect of success in the important meetings. The class games always offer the first opportunity of trying the men in outdoor competition; they are generally regarded as the first real test of the strength of the Mott Haven team, and for this reason all who have been working with the squad are urged to enter...
...third speaker for Harvard was Fletcher Dobyns '98. He began by a concise and clear analysis of the question at issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some...
...candidate can offer an advanced study who has not offered the corresponding elementary study; but Physics is considered elementary with respect to Meteorology, and Geometry with respect to Astronomy...
...were present at this performance, have thought the play worthy of serious academic recognition. At their suggestion, the Department of English has invited the company who acted in private to reproduce it at Cambridge. To those who care for the history of the English drama, this performance may offer a not quite usual interest. For it is a serious effort, on the part of a modern student, to revive many of the effects which were characteristic of the English stage in the early Seventeenth Century...
...toward raising the standard of future intercollegiate speakers. In the apparent absence of other plans, therefore, we propose a debate between representatives of the Sophomore and Freshman classes. If this plan were tried and found successful it might well be made a yearly event. If, however, it should not offer the advantages embodied in the former intercollegiate debates or help in any way to take the place of those debates, it need not be regarded as a precedent...