Word: granting
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...disagrees with the verdict of such figures and considers the assertion "that the attainment of high grades in collegiate studies is normally necessary to the attainment of success in life" an absurdity. In order to expose the absurdity of this view the Transcript cites the classic example of Generals Grant and Lee in the Civil War. The latter attained the highest rank at West Point, while Grant was satisfied with "a gentleman's standard," yet in their later careers the advantage appears to have been reversed. Upon careful investigation and reference to impartial authorities, Lee, fighting for a lost cause...
Personality in the cast is the primary virtue of "So Long Letty." Oliver Morosco has gathered together such people as Charlotte Greenwood, Sydney Grant, Walter Catlett and Frances Cameron, with well-laid plans. They all have an unexplainable faculty of "getting across" just what they want and it will be a peculiar audience which will not be at their feet for three hours, in more ways than one. Charlotte Greenwood, with her excessively long legs and arms and her naivete is about as ridiculously attractive as one could hope...
There is the usual paradox of there being not a singer in the play, but no one in America can sing any more, so the fault is passed over lightly. Many attractive tunes give ample opportunity for some real singing, particularly "So Long, Letty," but Sydney Grant remedies the defect of the absence of voices by some clever instrumental limitations, and this with great success...
...corporation of the College petitioned to the legislature to grant the separation of the Divinity School from the University. The bill was not granted. Another bill was introduced where by the state should resign all Divinity School trusts to them for the maintenance of the School. In 1865, the court having given no decision, the petition was withdrawn. "Thus it was settled that to train students in theology was an essential part of Harvard University...
...what basis, then, does the right exist? On the fact that in the first one hundred and forty-four years of its existence the College did grant degrees and the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 sanctified this power by providing 'that the President and Follows in their corporate capacity, and their successors in that capacity, their officers and servants, shall have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and franchises which they now have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy.' That is the basis of our degree-granting power--a privilege exercised in colonial days without...