Word: offer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sigurd's opportunity. He has been waiting for a chance to cause a mutiny in the crew so that he may return victorious to Norway and wed the beautiful Sylvia, to whom Leif is betrothed. Sigurd incites the crew to mutiny and they engage the medicine man to offer Leif some drugged wine. Leif and Tyrker return at dusk and drink copiously of the wine and and Leif names the land "Wineland the Good." The drug has its effect and both drowsily fall on the rocks. They doze off to sleep as Sigurd and the Vikings go aboard ship...
...Joseph Leiter '91 has offered to continue his donation for the scrub baseball cups, known as the Leiter cups. In repeating this offer a wish is expressed that the old teams be reorganized as far as possible under the same names, and that the cups be competed for on practically the same conditions as in previous years. The games will be under the management of R. S. Hale '91, who represents the donor, F. W. Moore '93, W. T. Reid, Jr., '01 and C. Frothingham...
...Club Committee and the Memorial Committee united in an expression of opinion that the best memorial to Harvard's soldiers would be a building for all Harvard students. On November 3, 1890, the gift by major H. L. Higginson of $150,000 for a University Club was announced. The offer by the Corporation of the site on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets made Major Higginson's gift immediately applicable...
...Department of Geology will offer two public lectures, illustrated by stereopticon views selected from the Gardner Collection of Photographs, to be held in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock, as follows...
...Cambridge syndicate has recently purchased three adjoining parcels of land on Massachusetts Avenue, opposite Beck Hall, with a view to erecting a hotel which will cost about $300,000. The "College Inn" building, which now stands on the site, will be removed. The hotel is intended to offer accommodation to parents and friends of students, who come for a day or two, and who would otherwise seek lodgings in Boston; and also to provide for dinners and banquets. To this end the cafe will probably be made a prominent feature, and a banquet hall and private dining rooms will...