Word: granted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most prominent feature of the report adopted by the conference committee yesterday is its conservatism. It does not recommend that the students be given any executive power; the committee proposed is to be simply a body for discussion and for passing resolutions. A motion recommending the grant of executive power was defeated by a practically unanimous vote...
That some executive power may be granted the conference we earnestly hope. There is a feeling prevalent among the students that in some of the features of college life, they should have nearly, if not absolutely complete control of their actions. Such control would certainly make them more careful in what they do. Amherst with her student senate having considerable executive power, has shown that students are just, nay, even severe at times, in their judgments upon their fellows, and there is no reason to doubt that Harvard students would be less able to wield power than Amherst...
Resolved , That it is the sense of the meeting that in case the faculty decide not to grant any executive power to these conferences , it would still be desirable that they be held for deliberative purposes...
...holding true of American students in general? Obviously not; nor can we be made to believe that the students of Brown, in particular, are so constituted as to be incapable of at the same time engaging in sport and study, with profit to themselves. We must, then, grant that President Robinson holds a mistaken view of the situation, and, granting this, we cannot but feel surprised that so extreme a view should have been received with "great applause" by the alumni of Brown, before whom the words referred to were spoken...
...that at Harvard, and yet not the ordinary method of prescribed work. In the freshman year the work is a prescribed course, the same for all, and includes a course in military tactics. Military drill is required of the men in order that the Institute can obtain a yearly grant from the government. The freshman cadets make a fine battalion of several companies, drilling in the gymnasium several times each week. At the close of the freshman year the student is allowed to choose one of the following ten courses: civil, mechanical, electrical, or mining engineering, architecture, chemistry, natural history...