Word: granted
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Those of the Old Guard didn't have to work that hard. The shadow they cast was longer, warmer; they wore their classicism so easily. Unburdened by having to make each new piece an artistic event, they simply refined and perfected their gifts. Crosby, Ella, Cary Grant--these people had lasting appeal...
Harvard has not always said "yes," however. Vogel recalls that a grant from Asia for a lecture series was returned when the source of the funds objected to a particular speaker on political grounds. While he refuses to divulge the gift's country of origin, Vogel stresses that Harvard chose to return the money rather than capitulate to its donor...
Events such as the infamous first-year plague, a western-style shootout in the Square, the admissions saga of Gina Grant and the bizarre murder-suicide in Dunster House made for an impressionable first year...
April was dominated by the Gina Grant debate.The young woman had been offered early admission,but her acceptance was quickly rescinded when theFAS Standing Committee on Undergraduate Admissionsreceived word that Grant had killed her mother in1990...
Rowe had a trying first year at Harvard, dealing with onslaughts of media attention triggered by the Dunster House murder-suicide, the reversal of Gina Grant's admission to the College and Rudenstine's sudden leave of absence for exhaustion...