Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...body of the institution are a sufficient guarantee of its ultimate success. On the other hand, the odds against which the society has yet to struggle are great. The growing reputation of Boston University and Wellesley College is an important obstacle which cannot be disregarded. Any earnest attempt to offer greater educational advantages to women is worthy of praise. In spite of the inherent obstacles to its success, the society is slowly gaining ground, year by year, and we shall doubtless see it established strongly and permanently within a comparatively short time...
...informed as to whether the rackets were used in more ways than one, but we trust that they were not. Although reports from Vassal declare that the Wellesley tennis grounds are upon the side of a hill, this is not true. The grounds are very level and offer a good opportunity for close playing. Many of the players are well known to us as having vanquished some of our best players during the past summer, and this fact answers conclusively the remark that "girls can't play tennis." It has been rumored that the president participated in the playing. This...
...itself, must necessarily be incomplete, that the students are left to themselves to extend the course so that it shall be complete, is not a particularly original idea, yet it is a truth that can never well be lost sight of. The courses that a college is able to offer, whether in languages, science, philosophy or art, do not satisfy every side of human nature and human intellect. At least one side is left unsatisfied, and not unlikely is better, so left. The responsibility of training themselves in speech and argument, of making themselves informed on the current topics...
...Dante Society has offered an annual prize of one hundred dollars to be awarded for the writer of the best essay on a subject on the life or works of Dante. The limitations and conditions of the offer will be found in the college catalogue...
...prove an institution of permanence and general benefit. There has long been needed some means by which the students can be able to consult the papers of the day with greater facility than at present. While the library now has several papers on file the proposed reading-room will offer a better opportunity to the students for consulting them. The number of publications also will be very much larger than that which the library at present contains. The reading-room will fill a long felt want, and deserves the highest encouragement from the students. We hope that the plan will...