Word: granting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Next came the 100 yards' running race, for which the entries were Herrick '77, Bird '77, H. R. Grant '74, Rives '74, Williams '75, W. C. Sanger '74, and Denton L. S. S. The race was won by Mr. Herrick in 10 seconds...
...next feature was the running high leap, for which the entries were as follows: H. R. Grant '74, E. W. Davis '76, Rives '74, Danforth '77 and W. C. Sanger, '74. When the rope had been raised to four feet eleven inches, and after several trials Danforth succeeded in clearing...
...third of that number can possibly be admitted. The necessary buildings have been erected, but there is very little money left to carry on the institution; it is to be earnestly hoped that many States will adopt the proposition to provide for the maintenance of two pupils by a grant of $ 5000 or an annual subscription of $ 350. The school is to be open from July 7 to August 29. The corps of instructors numbers about a dozen...
...first contest should take place January 7, 1875, in the Academy of Music, in New York City. There will be contests in oratory and essay-writing. The following judges were appointed: Oratory, - Whitelaw Reid, William Cullen Bryant, and Dr. Chapin. Essays, - T. W. Higginson, James T. Fields, and Richard Grant White. Letters of encouragement were read from President McCosh and T. W. Higginson. It is expected that at the meeting in January all the colleges that sent delegates to the convention will be represented...
...where only one short syllable is required. Now, if so much is sacrificed of the metre, the heavy material body of poetry, how much must be sacrificed of the ethereal soul, and those delicate fancies which the most unrestrained combination of words can barely express. But grant that all poets are able to command language to such an extent that, in transferring their thoughts into the Procrustes bed of a particular metre, no feet are stretched and no thoughts mutilated, take up at random any collection of poems, and how many are there that seem to bear a trace...