Word: granted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford Foundation grant over the next three years will allow two African journalists to spend a year at Harvard, Howard Simons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday...
Brian's Song: Even in defeat, Harvard wideout Brian Barringer shone. Saturday, Barringer caught 11 passes for 119 yards. His 11 catches tied Wally Grant '64 for the third best receiving day in Harvard history. The record is shared by Pat McInally '73 and Jim Curry '77, both of whom caught 13 passes...
Henry Adams remarked after the Civil War that anyone wishing to disprove Darwin's theory had only to trace the evolution of the American presidency from George Washington to Ulysses Grant. Americans have often cherished a sort of golden-age theory of the presidency. They look back on, say, Harry Truman and John Kennedy as historical giants. In fact, neither man looked all that imposing when he was in the White House. Truman was often vilified as an undistinguished little haberdasher, utterly unfit to succeed a demigod like Franklin Roosevelt. Those underwhelmed by the current presidential candidates might remember that...
...unheroic style. Here is Ulysses S. Grant, who rode into battle with a cigar in his mouth and was all too often drunk, but who became commander of the Union armies because President Lincoln said of him: "I need this man. He fights...
About each of his four characters, Keegan poses a fundamental question: Did he believe that it was necessary for a commander to fight at the head of his soldiers? Keegan's answers: Alexander always, Wellington often, Grant no more % than necessary, Hitler never. Keegan attributes this chronological evolution to the continuing development of longer-range weapons, which made a general's presence on or near the battlefield increasingly perilous. At the same time, technology also provided the telegraph, telephone and radio, making possible the commander's separation from his troops. This trend reached its culmination in World War I, when...