Word: offering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to secure some new college songs the Glee club has decided to offer three prizes for the three best pieces of that character. The competition is open to all and the pieces may be either glee or comic songs. The prizes will be twenty-five, fifteen, and ten dollars, but no prize will be given unless the songs are accepted and sung by the club. All compositions must be sent in by November 15. It is hoped that the competition may be large so that there may be a good variety of new songs on the club's programme...
...difficult to see the reason which has prompted the closing during the evening of the department libraries in Sever. If we understand aright it is one of the duties of a college to offer to its students every advantage to study within its power. This duty, however, is in this one instance omitted. Undoubtedly there are comparatively few men who would make use of the reference library privilege if it were granted, and yet that is no sufficient reason for withholding it. There are many times in the aggregate when students are considerably benefited by having access to the department...
...doubles to be played tomorrow. The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: president, Campbell of Columbia; vice president, Shaw of Harvard; secretary, R. Huntington of Yale. It was voted to hold the next year's tournament at New Haven, and the association has decided to offer a $500 cup to be held each year by the college winning first place, and to become the property of the college first winning seven first prizes...
...most important feature of the college is the botanical laboratory, the gift of a few enthusiastic friends of botany. This has been fitted with apparatus mainly imported from Europe, and is considered the best fitted laboratory for women in the country. Especially does it offer superior opportunities for advanced courses in botany. The advantages offered in this department are for three classes of students. Those who hold first degrees from Barnard and other colleges, and desire to work for a higher degree, making a special study of botany; those who wish to study some one branch of botany, without reference...
...purpose of Barnard college to offer women as thorough and as broad a training as can be obtained anywhere, and the trustees are now at work pushing the construction of chemical and physical laboratories, dormitories and recitation halls...