Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behind the project; the building will go up forthwith if only the students, whose need it is supposed to meet, show themselves conscious of a need. The persistence of the University in forwarding the project attests to the sincerity with which it is being pushed from above. The offer to erect the hall was first made contingent upon prospective interest in the Union's system of club tables. When this interest failed to materialize in force, it was seen that particular reasons, among them the location of the Union itself and the isolated position of the rooms used for club...
...mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money with which to get a start in life, he sees in this a reminder of the difference in their stations. So he goes away to work. Then, there is the Civil War into which Jimmy jumps with gusto and out of which he emerges embittered...
There are occasions when accuracy and balance are not desirable in fiction, when personal narrative, however biased, however immature, is wanted. And in such occasions college stories written by undergraduates exactly fit the requirements. They offer what is at the moment the sentiment of the writer and although they may be nothing but expressions of that fleeting sentiment and may violate all the rules of reality, to say nothing of good taste, they are for that reason valuable. But to go the undergraduate for the truth-whatever that is-about himself and his fellows is as wise as to seek...
...prominent graduate, already a heavy donor, has come forward with an additional offer if four men in a certain sector of the country will give just twice as much. This would assure the quota set by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fund being now one hundred thousand dollars shy. To increase the sporting chance the latest challenge has been hurled directly in the teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling...
...invading nine has played erratically this spring and it is difficult to forecast just how much opposition they will offer the Crimson players today. The visitors have a strong pitching staff and if they can play in top form, they can put up a stubborn resistance. The chief weakness of the Providence aggregation...