Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinguish themselves. Edgerly bore off the honors for Harvard, and Foster and Wiestling also did excellent work. The umpiring was inconceivably bad. Grant seemed determined to made every decision against Harvard, his ruling on Allen's foul being more than usually flagrant. It is a poor excuse to offer for a defeat that the umpire was unfair, but Harvard should protest Grant's engagement next year after his performances in the Princeton and Yale games...
...offer our sincere and hearty congratulations to the members of the freshman nine on their glorious victory over Yale on Saturday. They have won both games of the series, and have kept the Yale freshmen off the famous "fence." The college appreciates their victory, and is proud of them. Especially creditable is this victory from the fact that the nine played on strange grounds - which is always more or less trying - and had not such strong support from their classmates as did their adversaries, that is, in point of numbers; for certainly they cannot complain of indifference or lack...
...very noticeable that the Yale News is at present pursuing the policy - which is the policy of their athletic organization - of using undue persuasion in the shape of lavish compliment, offers of high advancement, donations of old shells and so forth, to make proselytes for their athletic teams among the various schools. It is a very well known fact that the St. Paul's club and other clubs at Yale are deliberately formed for this purpose, and that graduates of the different schools are sent to make converts of the most valuable athletes left in them. Now, although Yale...
...awning interfering with the view of some few people. This first possibility could be done away with, by placing the canvas pretty well up in the air; and the second could be neutralized by putting the posts pretty far apart, and also by judiciously setting them where they would offer the least inconvenience, and that to the smallest number. Even if a few people were bothered by it, that would surely be better than putting three thousand people to the torture for three hours, as was done in Monday's game...
Especially ought something of this kind to be done in the Yale game, coming as it does at the very end of June, when we may expect either intense heat or a thunder storm, against both of which a canvas awning would offer protection...