Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Word comes from the Frederick Female Academy, Md., that a change in the principalship is to be made, and that applications are in order. This is the most attractive offer that has yet been brought to notice...
...Harvard Library. The dimity curtains and patch-covered window-seats cannot be offended at being dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway when she approaches the study table, where confusion, I am told, too often reigns. The chairs, also, rebel against being confined to their primitive use, and offer their arms and backs to a heavy burden of Newmarkets, sacques and hats. The interested reader can obtain no adequate idea of the harmonious details I attempt to describe, until he realizes that this room has the ordinary proportions of a chamber. Order is, doubtless, a strong element in the character...
...large number of readers is the strongest inducement for a writer to do his best work; the "Advocate," therefore, having a much larger number of subscribers, would offer a stronger inducement for good work than a new paper...
...Advocate" would offer as "permanent" a form as a Monthly...
...positions which the gentlemen thus favored occupy. Recognizing the efficacy of the custom, the faculty have fallen into the habit of granting similar vacations to the students,-some of six months duration, or, in a few cases, even as much as a year. At the risk of seeming to offer gratuitous advice, we would respectfully suggest that a suitable vacation be also given to the Dean and the Registrar next year. Both these men have been severely overworked of late years, and if the nine comes out victorious in many games this spring, the increase in the amount of business...