Word: offers
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Cobden Club of England offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present undergraduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject...
...dangers in the way of attempting to manage a Freshman race at New London within a week of the Harvard-Yale race, and argued that, if the Freshmen of Harvard ('82) insisted on rowing their projected race with Columbia, they would find it to their advantage to accept the offer of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, which was then making a creditable (though, as the result has proved, an ineffective) attempt to establish an "American Henley," by offering expensive challenge cups for the exclusive competition of undergraduate crews. As a matter of fact, however, the Freshmen of Columbia...
Death did indeed claim two victims from the spectators of last summer's race; and people whose information about the calamity was gained at second hand, and was entirely erroneous, did not scruple to offer public censure of the managers for their assumed remissness, - one writer even venturing to brand them as "criminals." This sort of talk, no matter how absurdly unjust, is not pleasant to those against whom it is uttered, for no one likes to be told that he ought to be a jail-bird, even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless...
ANOTHER society has been added to the long list of Harvard societies: "The Harvard Historical Society." Unlike some others, this society supplies a want felt in the University, and as long as it is not too ambitious in its aims, we offer it our hearty support. The idea of getting such men as Lodge, Von Holst, Adams, and Fiske to lecture on living historical questions deserves much praise, and we hope the students will signify their approval by turning out in full force to the lectures...
...offer conditions - if thou art not too greedy...