Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general authority of the Faculty, as has been done heretofore in many cases not covered by positive regulation. In all cases, specific penalties and regulations, suggesting a line up to which failure of duty or breach of discipline may be safely carried, have been struck out, in order to offer no temptation for a kind of calculation of results which is believed to place the student in an essentially wrong attitude of mind towards his regular duties." And, again...
...inaugurating the first Annual Meeting this year. The meetings would be held one year at Cambridge and the next at New Haven, thus giving members of both a fair opportunity of seeing the sports, and of reaping the financial benefit that would inevitably attend them. They would also offer an additional incentive to train, to those men who wished to compete at the preliminary and at the Mott Haven meeting. We trust that the Yale Athletic Association will think well of this plan, and assist in carrying it out, feeling sure that its accomplishment would do a great deal towards...
...Cobden Club of England offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present undergraduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject...
...dangers in the way of attempting to manage a Freshman race at New London within a week of the Harvard-Yale race, and argued that, if the Freshmen of Harvard ('82) insisted on rowing their projected race with Columbia, they would find it to their advantage to accept the offer of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, which was then making a creditable (though, as the result has proved, an ineffective) attempt to establish an "American Henley," by offering expensive challenge cups for the exclusive competition of undergraduate crews. As a matter of fact, however, the Freshmen of Columbia...
Death did indeed claim two victims from the spectators of last summer's race; and people whose information about the calamity was gained at second hand, and was entirely erroneous, did not scruple to offer public censure of the managers for their assumed remissness, - one writer even venturing to brand them as "criminals." This sort of talk, no matter how absurdly unjust, is not pleasant to those against whom it is uttered, for no one likes to be told that he ought to be a jail-bird, even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless...