Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some time ago an offer was submitted to the University Corporation from an unknown benefactor to put in a new window in the north end of the transept at Memorial Hall, in memory of those whose names are inscribed on the tablets of the transept. The Corporation accepted this anonymous offer and appointed a committee to arrange the matter. Owing to the death of Mr. Brimmer, the chairman of this committee, to whom the designs were submitted, the work has been somewhat delayed. The window probably will not be completed for at least two years. The scaffolding now up around...
...Murphy '93, ex-captain of the Yale ball nine, has accepted an offer to play shortstop on the professional team of New Haven...
...organized.- (a) Similar clubs have been and are successful.- (b) It has the support of the University at large.- (1) 1000 men have signed the books.- (c) It would fill an aching void in our present college life.- (1) We painfully lack the conveniences such a club would offer.- (d) It would strengthen college spirit.- (1) It would give students the opportunity of meeting and being influenced by visiting and resident graduates.- (2) It would create and centralize college public opinion.- (3) It would give men an opportunity to meet who otherwise would not do so.- (x) Men who live...
...debating clubs offer almost the only means of training for men who wish to take up debating, and in past years the men who represented Harvard have with few exceptions been chosen from one or the other of these clubs. Competitive debates for membership in these two organizations have already been announced. The Union will hold a debate for candidates tonight and the Forum will hold one next week. It is as true in debating as in athletics, that the larger the number of candidates, the greater the chances of getting good men, and consequently the greater the chances...
...bookseller who had Professor Gueist's library in charge offered the whole collection for $2500 to the first bidder. Professor Farnham at once cabled an acceptance of the offer and obtained the collection. He took this action on his own responsibility, fearing that if he delayed the library would be purchased by others, but a donor has since come forward to furnish the funds...