Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last report of your committee recorded the generous offer of the government of His Majesty, the King of the Hellenes, to confer upon the American School at Athens the site for a building near the plot of ground bestowed upon the British school...
...Greek Government has offered to the Committee on the School an admirable site for building, of little less than two acres in extent, and of an estimated value of about $13,000. On account of lack of means for building, the committee have not been able definitely to accept this liberal and gratifying offer. A similar offer of an adjoining site has been made to and accepted by the committee in charge of the British School; the means for building have been secured by them; and, plans having been prepared by Mr. F. C. Penrose, the work of building...
...Phillips Andover and $10,000 to the Abbot Female Seminary of Andover. All of these sums, with the possible exception of the last, are for the aid of poor students, hence do not swell the available funds for college management. By this gift Harvard will be able to offer an inducement for some poor student to make his home with...
...criticisms which one now finds there. If his themes were marked one would have a definite notion of the value of his work-a notion which he certainly cannot get from "This shows care" or "Literary promise." Of course there are drawbacks to my plan, but I offer it as an improvement, not as an ideal...
...speculation to day. It is learned that he was induced to recommend the purchase of the park by facts brought to his knowledge by the trustees of Clark University, which were substantially these: Nearly a year ago Rev. Eli Fay, D. D., of Los Angeles, Cal., made an offer to the American Unitarian Association through Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, to give $600,000 for the endowment of a college for women, to be located somewhere in Massachusetts. Dr. Fay's conditions were that the college should be a memorial of his wife, and should bear her name...