Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...companion piece to the specimens of weird translations which we recently printed, we offer the following examples of grotesque learning, as shown on the part of our English cousins. They are given on the authority-of the Rev. Charles W. Stubbs, who writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "I can vouch for the boba-fides of the following, which I have met with during the last two or three years as examiner in the Cambridge local examinations: 1. 'Pitt was a great statesman; Fox was a ditto, he wrote a very good book of martyrs. Pitt and Fox both died...
...hope that the cares and anxieties of the midyears will not cause the college, or at least that part of it interested in the question, to forget the offer which the officers of the Art Club have made. This offer will remain open until next Monday and seems advantageous enough to be accepted. We have no doubt that there are a sufficient number of persons interested in the aims and purposes of an Art Club to insure its success. The real difficulty is in getting these men together. We would therefore propose that a meeting be held in the rooms...
...this course, and, in order to save the valuable collection of the club, they make the following proposition. The entire club property will be turned over to the keeping of any responsible body of students who will guarantee to conduct their society as an art club. If this offer is not accepted before January 26, the property will be sold. The rooms of the club may be seen by applying to Mr. Ahen, janitor of Grays, at Wadsworth House. Any additional information desired may be obtained at Holworthy...
Accompanying our criticism of the crews, we beg leave to offer a few suggestions in regard to the freshman crew. To insure success in the race with Columbia, two eights should be kept at work throughout the year. Hitherto it has been customary to dispense with a second eight in the early part of spring, and keep but a few substitutes in training. The experience the last three years has proved that changes are often necessary as late as May or June. There will be no substitutes competent to take places on the regular crew unless they have...
...students, Be this as it may, it seems a pity to have so excellent a society disbanded, especially when it is remembered that the collection of the club, representing the accumulation of many years, will become scattered if the society does break up. We feel confident that the generous offer of the present members will be accepted, and that, under new management, the society may enter upon a career of renewed prosperity...