Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sensible suggestion comes to us from Harvard in the establishment there of three prizes for the best general development in the next six months. As it is well known that weak men at the beginning make greater relative development under the same condition than strong men, these prizes offer a special inducement to the men who most need the training they call for, and hence admirably solve the problem. They are not merely open as are the prizes at the athletic games, to the few strong men of the college, but to everybody - the pale, consumptive-looking senior...
...this moment need. 'Do the Annex girls enjoy the advantages of Cambridge society? is a question often asked. No; partly because the students are working-women without leisure for frequent engagements; partly because Cambridge society is busy and absorbed, and does not go out of its way to offer the Annex social culture. Cambridge, England, is said to have adopted Girton and Newnham with motherly cordiality, an example that might be gracefully followed by its American namesake. Do they see much of the Harvard students? is a question that soon follows. No; their work never brings them together, and they...
...News, with its customary force of expression, denies the statement that Robinson, the trainer, ever received an offer from Yale...
...international single-scull race for the championship of the world, open to all oarsmen in both hemispheres, is to be rowed in this country in June of next year. Mr. Richard K. Fox has decided to offer a valuable cup as an international prize. All oarsmen in England, America and Australia will be permitted to compete for the trophy, which will exceed in value any prize yet offered in England...
...novel offer of prizes for the greatest degree of physical development, which a gentleman connected with the university has made, as explained by the president of the Athletic Association in another column, is certainly an experiment that has much to commend it. It conclusively proves that Harvard College takes a direct and official interest in the question of physical as well as intellectual education of those under her care. The conditions of the offer are particularly well devised to promote excellence in this branch of education, as well as to stimulate a healthy interest in athletic exercises in quarters where...