Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have been adopted. The four years term is not a perfect system but it is better than any other scheme already proposed. He then dwelt on the educational advantages to the people of frequent campaigns and pointed out the opportunities for corruption which a long term of office would offer to incompetent or unprincipled occupants...
...This gave them control of the sea and opened the way to the Gulf of Pechili, as the battle at Ping Yan had cleared the approaches to Manchuria. These two battles practically decided the war. The Chinese were left with practically no navy at all. Without one they could offer little resistance...
President Seth Low made a formal offer to assume personally the cost of erecting the new library at One Hundred and Sixteenth street, on Morningside Heights, the site of the new Columbia College building. The building is to cost $1,000,000, and is to be a memorial to President Low's father, the late Abiel Abbot Low, "a merchant who taught his son to value the things for which Columbia stands...
...making his offer, President Low stated that it was his desire that his gift should be made the means of extending college privileges to some of the boys and girls of his native city, Brooklyn, under conditions calculated, he believes, to be of service to the schools of Brooklyn, both public and private, in maintaining a high standard of efficiency. To his wishes the trustees gladly assented...
...Norton, a son of Professor Charles Norton, was a member of the class of '88, at Harvard, and for the last three years has been studying at the American School in Athens and at the University of Cambridge. At Bryn Mawr Mr. Norton will offer courses in classical and in early Italian art, and the Trustees have appropriated a sum for the purchase of photographs for use in connection with these courses. Dr. Earle received the degree of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia, and continued his classical studies at the American School in Athens and at Berlin...