Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cobden Club, of England, offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present under-graduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject...
...good results that can be attained by college institutions established for the encouragement of intellectual pursuits have been amply shown by the success that has attended the Harvard Finance Club. Through the efforts of this society the Cobden Club of London was induced to offer a prize for the best essay on subjects appropriate to the needs and purposes of the organization, and, through the prospect of the prize thus offered, the Finance Club were able to promote great interest and valuable competition in the work in which they are exerting themselves. It is certainly a compliment to the society...
...made by the class-day committee in another column. The full enjoyment of the exercises depends largely upon the character of the audience. Strangers often get in as best they can to witness the exercises of the gala day of the year, and some of the poorer students frequently offer their tickets for sale at such public places that very undesirable persons are enabled to obtain admission. This year, therefore, the present committee are taking active measures to make the day as much of a college day as possible, and so they appeal to the members of the class...
...reported that Barnum has made an offer to Oscar Wilde for the latter to sit on top of Jumbo and ride in the street processions. If, instead of Wilde sitting on the elephant, Jumbo were to sit on Wilde, the result would be more satisfactory to the people, and it wouldn't hurt Jumbo much. - [Texas Siftings...
...machines. The New York business man needs, after the bustling life down town, the rest and refreshment of some literary pursuit; hence, our lecture courses on the different literatures are intended to foster a literary taste, and implant a desire to know something more about those new worlds that offer so fair a literary fruitage...