Word: offer
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...school association has, through its secretary, Lous D. Brandeis, '77, issued a notice of the offer of a prize for the best essay on any one of the following subjects...
...survient to the individual's will. For that reason Mr. Adams believes that the colleges which place no restrictions on the student in the form of church attendance etc., accomplish more good than the ones which enforce such observation. Moreover the colleges which are thus liberal offer fully as much, if not more, opportunity for religious teaching than the opposite kind and more than does the general public. The second impulse leading toward good is public opinion, which at college is strong, and strong it will be generally found, in denouncing that which is dishonorable and evil. The third beneficial...
Yesterday afternoon the crew tried the tank. It was not at all satisfactory. The oars were horribly clumsy, the volume of water to be moved was too great and the current did not move with any freedom, nor did the rowing offer any resemblance to boating. The clumsiness of the oars was made by cutting a large hole in the blade and tacking upon the remaining portions thick strips of wood. The water going through the hole made the oar feel dead, while the strips of wood on the blades made them very heavy. There was a tendency...
Moreover, we offer to row your distance of four miles, on your own course, and at such a time during the week of races as would be most convenient to you. Heretofore you have not found it at all trying to row two races in one week, and Cornell, by defeating Pennsylvania so decisively last year, would seem to merit as much consideration as has been shown to Pennsylvania in the past...
Many students cannot afford to purchase the larger dictionaries and as they desire to avail themselves of the greater advantages for study which these works offer, they naturally go to the library to use them. But now one cannot use a Lexicon unless he stands before a rack and holds his books while he studies and meantime he is keeping numerous others waiting...