Word: granting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...himself from his visit. He naturally noticed that the stock of honorary degrees conferred by Harvard was exhausted before Princeton was reached. It had occurred to him that among the Faculty of Princeton College were men worthy of the hightest distinction it was in Harvard's power to grant, and it was not pleasant to think they had been overlooked while degrees were simply scattered among the Faculties of other colleges. Dr. McCosh might have overlooked this apparent forgetfulness on the part of Harvard had not Dr. Holmes, as he imagined, furnished him fresh food for unpleasant thought...
...learning which she never lost during the middle ages. His influence attracted many to scholastic ways. When Paris attempted to make herself a power as a University, the civil authority decided to put the Bishop's secretary in supervision. This Chancellor was the accredited official who was to grant the licenses for teaching. This was the extent of his power. The right to teach extended throughout the civilized world, except in a few isolated instances. There was an association of the graduates at Paris, and as time went on the power of the Chancellor was taken from...
...half-course could not satisfactorily accommodate all who desired to study the subject more critically, and Mr. Jones asked that English IX should be made a full course, and that an elementary elective should be established to accommodate those who had not studied elocution previously. As a refusal to grant this request seriously cripples the instructor's work, Mr. Jones, in justice to the students and to his profession, felt called upon to resign his position as instructor. The work in elocution since the establishment of the class method of instruction has been unprecedented. The numbers attending the class have...
...Yale, 1. First base on balls - Stagg, 3; Nichols, 5. First base on errors - Yale, 2; Harvard, 4. Struck out - Stagg, 10; Nichols, 8. Double plays - Allen and Smith. Passed balls - Dann, 2; Henshaw, 5. Wild pitches - Stagg, 2; Nichols, 2. Left on bases - Yale, 3; Harvard, 4. Umpire - Grant. Time...
...team was demoralized. Stagg and Dann were the saving points of Yale's team; Brigham played a good game in left field, but the others did not distinguish themselves. Edgerly bore off the honors for Harvard, and Foster and Wiestling also did excellent work. The umpiring was inconceivably bad. Grant seemed determined to made every decision against Harvard, his ruling on Allen's foul being more than usually flagrant. It is a poor excuse to offer for a defeat that the umpire was unfair, but Harvard should protest Grant's engagement next year after his performances in the Princeton...