Word: grant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principle if carried out would work vast mischief. There is no virtue which may not be made a vice. Shall everything capable of abuse be given up, or shall we not perform a greater service for the world by going forward under proper rules and regulations? We may grant that limbs are broken and lives lost; but we must remember that there is no form of life's activity which is not attended with risk. We close our eyes to all danger to limb and life when questions of business are concerned. If the world can afford to sacrifice...
...capacity of Attorney General of the United States, Judge Hoar served on President Grant's Cabinet in the year 1869-70, and the following year he was a member of the Joint High Commission which negotiated the treaty of Washington with Great Britain. Two years later he served one term as a member of Congress...
...year 1875, Harvard found that her engravings were occupying much needed space in the library, and even so could not be exhibited to the best advantage. They were accordingly transferred to the museum in Boston on a grant of seven years, and as no better accommodations in Cambridge were forthcoming, this grant was twice renewed. The expiration of the last term is due in 1896, and the question which is now exciting attention is, whether at that time the engravings are to be restored to Harvard to find their place in the Fogg Art Museum, or are to be again...
...last part of this statement may safely be admitted. As to the rest, it would seem to be rather an extreme view of the situation. The engravings must by the terms of the grant remain in Boston until next year: at that time, if Harvard asks for the return of what she has loaned, the "idea of the trustees" will be matter of entire indifference. The writer in the Tribune seems to fear that Harvard will make no such request because some of the trustees of the museum in Boston are also among the "Harvard authorities." Such a fear, however...
...directors are plainly a body representing the students in the hall, elected by the students, intended merely to carry into action the will of the students. It is thus their imperative duty either to grant any request signed by so large a body of students or else in refusing to grant it, to refuse on the ground that a more intimate knowledge of the matter in hand would reverse the opinion of the signers of this request. Having taken the latter course, they owe to their constituency an explanation sufficiently sound to convert the signers of the remonstrance. Should they...