Word: granting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grant Memorial University, of Athens, Tenn., will observe General Grant's birthday, April 27th, with appropriate ceremonies. President Spence will preside. Judge Rea, of Minnesota, Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repulic, will deliver the oration. The University was founded in 1867, General Grant contributing the first cash donation. It has turned out over a thousand preachers and teachers, and owns property valued...
...should grant shipping subsidies-(1) Because they show good results: "Iron Steamships" (pam.), p. 9; Hall's American Navigation, pp. 64-91; No. Amer. Rev., May, 1881, pp. 477, 480-1.- (2) Because they would stimulate American industry in general-not benefit a favored few: Hall's "Navigation" and "Iron Steamships," entire.- (3) Because they are in harmony with the principle of "ruling America first for Americans, and for the rest of mankind afterwards" Penn. Monthly, March, 1880.- (4) Because they are a necessity in order to the establishment of an American merchant marine: "American Shipping Interests...
...last number of the Monthly, the writer takes the ground that, owing to the fact that Harvard is situated near Boston, and that the students are thus afforded unusual social advantages, it follows that at Harvard the social interests must of necessity take precedence of athletics. While we grant the writer's premises, we cannot accept his conclusion. It is true that Harvard students are afforded social advantages which possibly no other college possesses. The advantage of having Boston's society within the reach of those who have the means to enjoy it, is a piece of good fortune which...
...what is given in the elocution sections and those who have taken this work testify to its value in their petition. We feel certain that the members of the faculty who would take the pains to investigate the teaching here and its results would be only too ready to grant the petition and so place the study of elocution on a par with the other branches of the English department...
...first event was the fence vault. Of the six entries but four men appeared-R. C. Williams and H. G. Bradlee of the M. I. T., and J. Connor and R. E. Grant of the Union Gymnasium. Williams and Connor both did 6 ft. 9 in., and, failing in the next height, the event was given to Connor on a handicap for size. The standing high jump was the next event. Out of five entries the contest narrowed down to Mason. M. I. T., and Curtis, H. A. A. The failure of both...