Word: offered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...offering to build an attractive club restaurant, the Corporation meets the real basis of the demand for "a new Memorial." It also stands by the men who cannot afford to pay four dollars a week for their boards, and it does what no one has even asked it to do, offer the best and most varied accommodations to men who are in Cambridge only a part of each day, or fractions of each week...
...believed it will best meet the present needs of the College. Since the Foxcroft Club cannot remain in its present quarters, it seems best to give it some permanent situation, and the proposed hall will both do this and cover the ground of like smaller organizations, and generally offer every opportunity for moderate living to economical students. The a la carte system, and the comparatively low limits for the weekly charge, will of course necessitate a much larger and more general use of "orders," even among those who take "regular" meals. Further than this the announcement sufficiently explains itself...
...lecture on Electrical Forging announced for this evening by the Electric Club promises to be of considerable interest, particularly to those pursuing scientific studies. A successful method of manipulating metals by electric currents obviously would offer many advantages over the present one of heating by means of coal fires. Inventors realizing this have for years been directing their attention toward the perfection of some such process. Mr. Burton is the first to find a method which has been satisfactory from a commercial point of view and consequently he will speak this evening with a thorough understanding of his subject. Recently...
...Society of the Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania, has decided to offer a prize to any undergraduate who, in open competition this spring makes or surpasses the following standard: 100-yard dash, 10 2-5s; 220 yard dash, 23s; 440-yard dash, 51 1-2s; 880-yard run, 2m 3s: 1-mile run, 4m. 40s; 120-yard hurdle. 17s; 220-yard hurdle, 26s; running broad jump, 21 ft.; running high jump, 5 ft. 10 in; pole vault, 10 ft. 6 in; 2 mile bicycle race, 5m 50s.; putting 16 pound shot, 38 ft.; throwing 16-pound hammer...
Many complaints have been made, in these columns and elsewhere, that public speaking at Harvard is on the decline. It has been said, and truly, that the college has offered but little opportunity either for those interested in debating to hear lively debates, or for those desirous of becoming good speakers to develop their powers. It is to satisfy this longfelt need of such a Union as will offer these opportunities, that the old Harvard Union has been reorganized and placed upon an entirely new basis...