Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their business without gaining, as the other better business managers do, a certain profit each year. Their capital should be put into better hands and they be the employed. But in the practical world some such good business men as the directors of the Standard Oil Co., would offer reasons for arguing strongly on the side of the small capitalists, in spite of Mr. Walker...
...misinterpretion of the letter received by Harvard from Williams on September 30. The Williams manager, having two dates disengaged wrote this letter to Harvard, and a similar one to Yale, asking if they could play on either of the dates mentioned, and if so, what financial terms they would offer. These letters were not intended as offers to play on the days mentioned, but when the answers were received, stating the terms, Williams was at liberty to reject the offer of either or both of the colleges. 30th Harvard and Yale offered to play on the 23rd, Harvard stating...
...Brown, left their respective colleges last fall and entered Williams. The natural inference drawn by men in other colleges was that they were paid to come, or at any rate were influenced by some inducement or persuasion on the part of Williams. This, however, is not the fact. No offer of any kind was made to either of the men in question, nor was there, indeed, any thought at Williams of their coming there until they of their own accord expressed their determination to come. Williams, on her admission to the league, agreed either to prove to the satisfaction...
...misgiving get abroad to widen the little breach which rivalry always makes between colleges. At the same time it is hoped that the club will have its effects at home in improving the teams and drawing out the best men at hand to belong to them. It will offer an opportunity for captains to talk to their men at any length without fear of interruption, and at the same time will create a general feeling of equality and social friendship beneath the different athletic organizations...
...Barrett suggested in the Union Debate of last week that the club offer good food cheaply; would have it a sort of etherealized Merrill's, as it were, an Eden instead of the Trees of Life and Knowledge, the Holly Tree should flourish unforbidden. Others would have it a meeting place for strangers, such as Massachusetts was turned into during the celebration, as a smoking-room or a reading-room, all these combined. Also, every proposition ended in a storm of "buts" - as they all began with...