Word: granting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meet with great favor among many of the undergraduates, and there seems to be no strong reason why it should not be adopted by the faculty. Easter-tide is almost as much of a holiday all over the country as Christmas. Schools and colleges close their doors and grant a vacation for several days, if not for a week. And why should Harvard cling so persistently to the old rule by which Fast Day regulates our vacation? Harvard has before this found occasion to consult the wishes of her undergraduates, and she has not regretted it. Could she not listen...
...diorama of the main events in the the life of General Grant, painted by Paul Philoppoteaux, will be opened to public to-morrow. The paintings are twenty-two in number and are on exhibition at the Old South Church in Boston...
...special dispatch to the CRIMSON says: "The Washington Harvard Club has elected the following officers: President, Hon. George B. Loring; vicepresidents. Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, Judge Walter S. Coxe, Prof. J. R. Soley, Hon. Charles S. Fairchild and Prof. C. W. Winloch; secretary, Wm. Grant Webster; treasurer, John Sldney Webb. Hon. George Bancroft, who has been president of the club since its first formation has retired and the Hon. George B. Loring succeeds him. Mr. Wm. Grant Webster who succeeds Mr. Loring as secretary, graduated with the class of 1886 and has a fine reputation as an efficient organizer...
...paper as the Lampoon, and then when the red cover was adopted the paper had still another distinguishing mark. The pictures of Attwood, called "Ye Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Students," which appeared first in the Lampoon, were afterwards published in bookform, and some illustrated plays by Robert Grant also, which since have appeared as books, were first enjoyed by the readers of this paper. The work of these men, together with that of Mr. Wendell, our present instructor in English, and others, gave the Lampoon the distinctive character it had. The paper was improving greatly in Attwood...
...Nicaragua Canal," by General Grant...