Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least what are usually regarded as the pleasures that this world can ofers, and he had found them nothing but emptiness and folly. The trouble with him was that he mistook the means for the end, he regarded the temporary things of the world, such as houses...
...scheme of holding an interscholastic track athletic meeting in Princeton has been abandoned, owing to the failure of the Philadephia schools to respond to the offer made by the Philadelphia alumni...
...owing to the knowledge of trigonometry which is required, there is a difficulty in the way of preparing students for the higher course in laboratory work. The teaching of elementary mathematics has not hitherto kept pace with the adoption of rational methods of teaching physics; and few preparatory schools offer any course as advanced as trigonometry...
...seemed to me that the students now at the University would be interested in them, and might be benefited by them, and I therefore offer them to you for publication...
...offer which Professor Norton has made to give to the students fragments from the college lectures of James Russell Lowell will be very welcome to them. The kindly interest in the students by which it was prompted will be a cause for great gratitude toward him. It is his purpose to put within reach of the students matter which shall be of both immediate and permanent value,- immediate, because the lectures will treat of questions still open, much discussed and of weighty import; permanent, because the words of the lectures will always have the ear of Harvard men and because...