Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game was Major Walter Wingfield, of Her Majesty's Body Guard, and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however, and has never realized anything from the game except a gold watch and chain presented to him by public subscription. - News...
Although it has been the custom in past years to offer to the students a course of voluntary evening readings the readings which are offered to us this year far surpass in interest those which have been offered for several years. Great care has been taken in the selection of the readings, and they are given by gentlemen whose names assure those who care to interest themselves in the matter that attendance will fully repay any one for the time he may give to it. The most prominent gentlemen in their several departments are lending their best efforts...
...equalled by any other means as economical. There is something connected with these reproductions of the old works of art which is unique with them. They are well worthy of the students notice, and are certain to repay him in the artistic appreciation which they foster. The catalogues offer such a variety of subjects that every taste can be gratified. And the expense is so trifling that no one need hesitate to indulge his desire for them...
...consequence. The small amount of open-air exercise taken by the majority of undergraduates has often called forth a great deal of unfavorable comment, and fairly enough, too. Tennis has, it is true, gone far toward establishing a new order of things, yet even tennis can hardly claim to offer itself as a substitute for the energetic exercise to be obtained on the foot-ball field. We should be glad, then, if the customary matches between club tables and societies could be renewed this fall...
...exceed anything yet known in the history of Cambridge travelling? What can be more obvious than that the Cambridge road will promptly reduce its fares to three cents, and that the rival lines will continue to "see each other and go one lower" until both roads begin to offer premiums to secure traffic? It may be that smoking cars will be provided, with the intention of securing the student patronage, and it may be that - but why go on? Both lines will soon get back to the nickel basis, without any doubt...