Word: granting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Jenkins's argument, apart from being illogical, fallacious, and absurd, is wholly unsupported by the facts of the case; further on in this selfsame Essay now under discussion, we find: "I helped elect Messrs. Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, and Grant, all without...
...other parts of the December number are not without interest to undergraduates. Mr. Robert Grant, the class poet of '73, contributes a poem called "Hymen in Washington," which is very good, and is evidently more carefully written and more free than his poems of the same nature which used to appear in the Advocate. Mr. Hale also prints this month the address which he delivered in the summer to the graduating classes of Vassar and Cornell. It is called a "Life of Letters," and is well worth reading...
...former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist can tell us about them." But we are not to look for gain in religion more than in science. It might have been hoped that our author would grant us a faith somewhat purer and stronger than that of the worshippers of Ahura-Mazda, but he tells us, "a godless world implies a worldless God." Yet Professor Everett believes "in the great law of progress in the world of life," and this because the very elements of life we have...
After this came a three-legged race, in which the participants were Messrs. Goodwin and H. L. Morse '74, Riggs '76, and Denton, L. S. S.; Rives and W. C. Sanger '74, H. R. Grant '74, and Ellis '75, Latham and Leeds '77. The race was won by Messrs. Latham and Leeds...
...hurdle race there were ten entries. H. R. Grant '74, H. L. Morse '74, Watson '75, Rives '74, Latham '77, Bird '77, E. W. Davis '76, Goodwin '74, Belmont '75, and Riggs '76. Just before reaching the last hurdle, Mr. Latham led the rest by five or six yards, but in leaping it he tripped, and was quickly passed by Mr. Goodwin, who won the race...