Word: offer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual report for 1891-92 Professor John Trowbridge calls attention to the increased attendance in the laboratory courses in Physics. It has been the policy of the department to perfect the systematic courses of laboratory instruction rather than to offer lecture courses which may serve to attract only a momentary attention to the subject. In the year 1891-92 there were 265 students in the Physics courses while this year there are 324. The growth of the laboratory courses suggests that portions of the space now occupied by cabinets of apparatus, may have to be adapted to laboratory work...
Bowdoin College is soon to have a new science building, the gift of Mr. Searles, the millionaire, as a memorial of his wife, and this, with the new art building and the astronomical observatory, will enable the college to offer many advantages to the coming classes...
DEAR SIR. - Yale has decided to try to confine all her athletics to undergraduate students and in accordance with the determination I hereby offer to row the annual race with Harvard under the following specifications which are to be substituted for the first sentence in rule XXVI of the rules which at present govern the boat races between Harvard and Yale...
...Athletic Association is making an improvement in the board walk, extending from the gymnasium to the Physical Laboratory, which will offer an additional advantage for the training of the Mott Haven candidates. The walk for seventy-five yards is being made twice its former width. This will enable the men to do their outside work without being interfered with by others who are running at a different pace and by the public. As several men will be able to run abreast, short races can also be held. But the greatest advantage may be looked for in bringing...
...Commemoration Day, when Mr. Lowell read his great ode, that Phillips Brooks was asked to offer a prayer. "The services on that occasion," said the marshal of the day "Were not equal to what men felt. Words seemed to be too weak. Phillips Brooks' prayer was an exception...