Word: granted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...piece of ground back of the society building and the hospital, and north of the football grounds, extending east and west for about one hundred and twenty-five yards. As this would interfere with some six or seven tennis courts, which had already been marked out before the grant of President Eliot became known, the Lacrosse Association is willing to come to a compromise with the tennis men and agree upon a time to use the ground. If the Lacrosse Team can have the ground from four to five in the afternoon, during the fall, it will not be necessary...
...College had no organized football team until Mr. Harry Grant with Mr. Arthur Ellis and Mr. W. J. Prince got together the first fifteen to play against McGill College, May 14, 1874. The first game with any American college was played with Yale, Nov. 13, 1875, Harvard winning with four goals and four touch-downs. Up to '82's entrance into College, Harvard had won fourteen games, lost five, and had one draw. The captains have been Mr. Grant, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Whiting, Mr. Cushing, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Manning...
...will grant you liberty
This report conflicts to some extent with one which has just reached here, viz., that instead of shipping Boylston to Russia it is to be painted red, white, and blue, and put up at the World's Fair, in which General Grant is to receive his callers and presents. The latest despatch comes from New York, saying that O'Beery has offered to give away a debt of $2,000, incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors...
...Grace won't grant me grace...