Word: granting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...teach non-sectarian theology, you must teach only the things which no sect rejects. Your only escape from this difficulty lies in throwing down the dogmas before the student, and bidding him choose for himself. We grant that some subjects may be taught in this way, but surely not theology. . . . Few religious men like to see theological teaching converted into an exercise for sharpening the wits, or would like to see young men exposed to the influence of professors who took half a dozen different views of the Trinity and the Atonement...
Cabot, E. T. Grant...
...record in her Freshman contests than '80 or '82, but will also reinforce the University teams. In studies, also, '83 must do steady work, in order to atone for the general lack of energy in '82, and thus obtain the freedom from restrictions which the Faculty is willing to grant to any class that shows itself fit to use it. It remains that '83 should come forward, more than the two previous classes, in contributions to the class and University, and should subscribe universally to the College papers...
...several "tragedies" in this little book appeared in the Lampoon a year ago, and are now republished by Mr. Sever. Mr. Grant's poems were far too good to be laid away in our piles of old college papers, and we welcome their reappearance in a more permanent form...
...Directors reads as follows: "A claim of mine, made in the current month, for deduction on account of absence from February 14 to February 24, is disallowed, etc." The Directors naturally supposed that he had not handed in his petition until April, and so very properly refused to grant his request. If he will make the fact evident that he made his application in February, we have no doubt that he will be granted his allowance...