Word: granting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past and present members of the O. K. will dine at the Parker House, Boston, on Wednesday, April 22, at half past six o'clock. Mr. George G. Crocker will preside, and Mr. Robert Grant is expected to read a poem. Past members who propose to attend the dinner will kindly send their names to the Secretary, Holworthy 18, Cambridge, Mass., before April 20. The price of tickets will...
...president of Harvard says that "every youth of eighteen is an infinitetely complex and solitary organization." Next "correct education has for its aim the correct development of each student's gifts." I do not grant the first statement, and the second is not true. Do you, in physical education, take for your aim to strengthen the parts that are weak, or do you seek to develop more the parts already strong? Is the public ready for a steatopygean education. They like it in Africa. Is a man complete if he be a superior mathematician and that be the limit...
Voted that the petitioners be informed that the President and Fellows are not willing to grant their petition...
...Greek question at present going on. It is doubtful if a man would prove either a better or a worse commander of troops upon a modern battle-field, simply because he happened to have read in Thucydides a description of the fighting around Syracuse. Wellington was a classicist; Grant...
...such conferences would be advisable in the future, and as to what their powers should be restricted. After a protracted and interesting discussion, the resolution printed in Friday's issue was passed. " Resolved, That it is the sense of the meeting that in case the faculty decide not to grant any executive power to these conferences, it would still be desirable that they be held for deliberative purposes...