Word: offering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...object of the journal is to offer, in an accessible literary form, the work and progress of the several departments of knowledge. The first volume, will contain the following articles by Harvard men. The Influence of the Sun upon the Formation of the Earth's Surface, by Professor Shaler, Recent Advance in Physical Science, by Professor Trowbridge; The Theatrical Syndicate, by Norman Hapgood '90. There is also an article on Later Evolution in French Criticism, by Edonard Red. Professor Royce is on the advisory board of philosophy and Professor C. H. Toy of comparative religion...
...present year is characterized at the University of Pennsylvania by extraordinary activity in the direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school...
...Harvard management certainly can not now threaten to print the names of those who sell their seats, and probably can not offer to take back returned seats at face value. The only thing to be done is to remind undergraduates that by refusing to sell tickets to speculators they may prove themselves worthy of the rights they are claiming in the allotment of seats. UNDERGRADUATE...
...advertisements of private firms. If a student, a team, or a society wishes to post an announcement, the notice can of course be added to an existing accumulation. But what good is the notice if an hour later it is to be buried under Smith, Jones & Co.'s unparalleled offer in the clothing line...
...series of "Source Readers of American History." This volume is intended for children, and the extracts illustrate many entertaining facts of colonial life and customs, as well as some of the most interesting episodes of colonial history. The extracts are rewritten in modern form, so as to offer no puzzles of grammar or spelling, but preserves the racy and often humorous flavor of the old writers. Special pains has been taken to select extracts which will set forth the amusements, pursuits and interests of children, both white and Indian. The publishers are Macmillan...