Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular Dante prize will not be offered this year, but in its place is offered a similar prize under different conditions. This prize is in Memoriam of Mr. C. S. Latham who was awarded the Dante prize in 1889-90. Mr. Latham died before the award was announced and his mother now desires to again offer for competition the prize adjudged to him. The competition will not only be open, as Dante prizes have been, to Harvard undergraduates and Harvard graduates of not more than three years' standing, but also to students and graduates of similar standing of any college...
...club, also, intends holding the invitation fencing meetings in the club rooms and, moreover, two or three tournaments for the club championship. Professor Rondelle has offered two pair of foils as prizes for this latter competition. The club too will offer cups or medals...
...slates or any other machinery designed to prevent open contests and free choice." Well and good. But what has this last to do with nominating speeches, or is any connection intended? Does "Graduate" wish to strike here his dominant note of reform, and in the seductive "nominating speeches" to offer Ninety-seven a panacea for all the ills besetting Class Day elections? If this has been his motive he has succeeded but poorly, and we fear he must have been a dull scholar in his undergraduate days, or else he neglected the good English courses shamefully. [See Rhetoric: "Clearness...
...great number and variety of valuable lectures which students are annually given an opportunity to attend without charge was spoken of yesterday in this column. Undergraduates do not appear to realize the opportunities which these lectures offer. Many of the minor lectures, which students, at their homes in smaller places, would consider of the greatest value, are here slimly attended by the undergraduates, and many of the more important lectures are attended chiefly by Cambridge citizens and their families...
...welfare of the country. I. There would be less frequent distribution of offices (a) There have been fewer removals when a president has succeeded himself than when a president has succeeded another, even of the same party. (b) A new President has to reward his supporters. II. Extra terms offer motives for clean administration (a) The President's misdoings are brought to light by the hostile press. III. The refusal of a third term might destroy a definite policy (a) Continuity is essential to successful foreign policy. IV. At times it would be unwise to change the chief executive...