Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they hung on tiptoe, threatened slow strangulation, if not instant decapitation. Frantic vendors charge up and down the street, bawling out the name and nature of their wares: Photographs of Heidelberg, programmes of the procession, jubilee medals, whips, whistles, badges, sandwiches and pretzels...
...behalf. Alas, ye wicked generation of upperclassmen. How can you be so unsympathetic and cold of heart to the orphaned and homesick nursling who thus appeals to you for love and aid. For consider that perhaps by gentle treatment after a few short years, you may so improve their tender spirit that he will lose the greenness and lack of commonsense which tempts him to give instruction to men older, wiser, and more manly than himself...
...some reasons almost unexplainable, the work of the Abstinence League last year failed. We extend our hearty congratulations to the society that a period of inactivity has abated in no wise its powers. The college cannot but be interested in the success of its work, and we therefore tender the league our best wishes for the active and successful co-operation of the whole university to meet with any considerable success. It is certain from the vigorous action of the present corps of officers, that this condition will now be reversed. There are no societies in the university which deserve...
...Harvard. But even Harvard must do all in her power if the cup is again to be brought to Cambridge. Eternal vigilance is the price of victory of any worth. Every man in the university who feels himself able to finish any event respectably should feel called upon to tender his support. With a new list of able and hard working officers for the athletic association, no effort should be lost to surpass even the victory of last year. The cup belongs here and here it shall return, let who will contest such a result. With such a determination...
...domain of the intellect. I am firmly persuaded that the intercollegiate sports are as much chargeable with the survival of the traditional animosity between Yale and Harvard, for example, as our primary text books of history are with the anti-British sentiment of all children of tender years...