Word: granted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest then manifested in this subject, we feel that there exists to-day even a stronger desire for information concerning this important epoch of our history. Many causes have recently been brought to bear which tend directly towards an awakening of this spirit of inquiry. The deaths of Generals Grant and McClellan have served to bring to memory many half-forgotten events of the war period. The series of war papers in the Century have been of incalculable worth in rendering our generations more familiar with the great strife which it was not our fortune to witness. The increased interest...
...cheerfully grant that undergraduates are often unable to make valuable criticisms about their courses. Yet, on the other hand, it is frequently worth while to look at matters from our point of view. Accordingly we should like to call the attention of the French department to the present needs of many...
...Potter sustains the Harvard students. He remarks : To those who object to the students' petition that to grant it would be to violate the purposes for which the college was founded, as expressed in the motto on its seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, the petitioners may reply that the oldest college seal, the one nearest the foundation of the college, had the simple but comprehensive motto, Veritas; and in the name of truth, they make their petition. Or, if the incongrous present seal be still held across their request, it would be in order for them to remind the objectors that...
...fears so much? There is no law that forces the faculty to have a proper regard for it in their management of our affairs; and if next year a petition were to be got up to employ a regular fencing master, the faculty would certainly not be compelled to grant the petition simply because a year before they had granted one like it for another sport...
...regular salary which he will receive as part compensation for his services, his regular charges to students being thereby diminished one half. This extraordinary petition, while it is probably in the interest of many students, yet does not have that university character that should prompt the higher powers to grant it. There are many special athletic exercises, such as boxing, fencing, dancing, good in themselves, which, nevertheless, are not sufficiently general to justify maitenance of teachers at the expense of the college. College athletics are, at best, merely a means for better intellectual work, and as such should receive...