Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West Virginia expects much from its land grant university. The state covers the twisted knot of Appalachian mountain ridges. Soft coal constitutes its great wealth. Its coal, petroleum and natural gas sales approximate a third of a billion dollars a year. Those minerals West Virginians want to conserve and at the same time get more money for each year's output. They expect their state university to tell them...
...twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where many mistook him for president, and ever afterwards dubbed him Jubilee...
...Twiggle was in his study when I called. . . . There was a piece of ice autographed by President Grant in a glass case...
...President Grant slipped on that," Mr. Twiggle explained. "Here's a piece of snow that snow collectors have offered me a pretty penny for, but I wouldn't any more sell it than I would sell my right...
...lectures were transfered from Cambridge to Boston; in 1816 a small building on Mason Street erected by means of a grant from the General Court was completed. In 1846 that building was sold and a building to house the growing Medical School was erected for the Medical Faculty. By 1883 the School had again outgrown its quarters and was moved into a new and larger building on Boylston Street thought suitable at the time for many years...