Word: granting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bermuda letter states that Messrs R. L. Sears and Grant were lately defeated at tennis by two English officers...
...University of Michigan, and Smith of Columbia. President Carter of Williams was chosen chairman, and a committee appointed to draw up a plan for the permanent organization of the society. A resolution to the effect that it was the sense of the meeting that no college should grant the degree of A. B. to any student who could not read with facility French and German, was discussed but no definite decision was reached. The subject of introducing a system of conversation in German and French as a part of every college education, and the position of modern language...
...although we do not publish the letter in full we take the liberty of using it for a text upon which to make our comments. In the first place our correspondent asks whether hour examinations are necessary. We believe that strictly speaking they are not necessary, although we grant that they may be useful, as for instance, to enable an instructor to gain an idea of what his section is doing. But, asks our correspondent further, is there no other way of doing this ? This is a hard question to answer. We think that most instructors can gain a very...
...keel schooner yacht Gitana, Mr. William F. Weld, Jr., owner, sailed on her Mediterranean and African coast cruise, yesterday. Mr. Weld will be accompanied by three friends, among them Mr. R. D. Sears, and Mr. Mercer, and possibly Mr. P. Grant, Jr., will be of the party. The Gitana is fitted out for the cruise in the most perfect manner possible, no detail having been overlooked. She sails first for the Bermudas, thence to Madeira, Gibralta, the coast of Spain and the south of France, thence to Italy, Sicily, Algiers and Tangiers in Africa, the Canary Islands, Trinidad, working through...
...name, "Americanisms" applied to certain words or phrases, and gradually everyone learns to feel that all expressions so stamped ought at least to be avoided if not suppressed. And yet there are but comparatively few people who know what an "Americanism" really is. In a recent article Mr. Richard Grant White in referring to them, answers the question admirably. He states that "it is very rarely that a word or a phrase can be set down as an Americanism except upon probability and opinion; whereas the contrary is shown, if shown at all, upon fact-proof that cannot be gainsaid...