Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...person who may have printed accounts of any university race in which Harvard has taken part previous to 1876 will confer a great favor on the H. U. B. C. by sending such accounts to the Secretary at No. 5 Holyoke...
...Latin Conquest of Constantinople in 1204. Since the subject is so faintly understood, if one of our professors of history would kindly give a lecture, open to the University, on the causes of the present war, tracing the history of both countries only so far as necessary, he would confer a favor on the students that would be highly appreciated. If in the limits of a single lecture it would be impossible to treat the history with enough fulness, it might be well to indicate the best sources for supplementary information, and to confine the lecture to such points...
...clubs, since at present all the available funds are needed to buy the boats and to establish the system, as now improved, on a firm basis; and accordingly, the customary pewter trophies will probably be given. The two large cups, however, of which we give some account, confer a marked honor and glory, which renders them prizes more eagerly sought and more proudly held than cups, however valuable, awarded to each man in the boat. There will also be the flag offered by the Crimson as a prize in the six-oar race...
...proposed to bring up a steamboat or two from New York as a floating hotel. The railroad management is most liberal in its offers, and New London promises to do everything that Springfield would do. The executive committee is now to decide between the two places, and then confer with Yale...
...petition is now before the Massachusetts Legislature asking that power be granted to the trustees of Wellesley College to confer degrees. It is claimed that this power is necessary to place the college on an equal footing with similar ones. Dr. Clark, in favoring the petition, said "that it was the intention of the trustees that no graduate should receive a degree unless having attained the highest standard of any college in the land...