Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentleman who took my hat by mistake will have the kindness to return it to No. 14 Matthews, he will confer a great favor upon the owner...
...gentleman who took my hat by mistake will have the kindness to return it to No. 14 Matthews, he will confer a great favor upon the owner...
Lost. - A copy of Routh's Elementary Rigid Dynamics. Finder will confer a great favor by sending word to G. W. Sawin, 24 Grays...
Lost. A check book. The finder will confer a great favor if he returns it to 404 Harvard Street...
...hand performers, roller-skaters, tight-rope walkers, etc. As President Gilman says, they have become the 'sham and shame' of American colleges. Every so-called university and college, no matter what its standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from the other, and so both are regarded as worthless. They are given in accordance with no general plan and for no special proficiency in any particular branch, but each year an army of Doctors...