Word: granting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Cambridge.- The Fishmongers' Company have made a grant of a hundred guineas to the Building Fund of Girton College...
...past records of the College, they will find many things which they would prefer to have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record which few men certainly would not desire to have expunged from the Triennial Catalogue. It is a never-ceasing source of wonder what could have actuated the Faculty to disgrace the fair name of the College by giving President Grant a degree. Perhaps they expected that the Administration...
Second Half. - Yale kicked off, and for some time Harvard was hard pressed. At last Holden got a touch-down. The trial at goal by Grant was lost, but Holden soon sent the ball over by a ground-kick. The three quarters of an hour were now nearly ended, but another goal was obtained by Grant, on a touch-down of Tebbets, before time was called. The score then stood: Harvard, 3 goals, 2 touch-downs; Yale, 0 goals, 0 touch-downs. The Harvard eleven were: Forwards, Davis, Tebbets, Bacon, Holden, Hooper, Nickerson; half-backs, Blanchard, Jordan (captain), Grant; backs...
...RICHARD GRANT WHITE says there is no such thing as 'in our midst.' We should like to ask where he would locate the pain that makes paregoric a popular beverage with the young...
...Galaxy for November is an excellent number of the magazine. It contains a continuation of "Madcap Violet," Essays by Richard White Grant, T. M. Coan, Albert Rhodes, and others. The story of "Miss Ruth" is almost, without exception, the best of its kind that we have read for years...