Word: granting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came in time to resemble second-hand book stores. In the first two years alone Carl Sandburg went through...
...Corporation should not have many quains about indulging in a little legal shenanigans to extricate the Council from its unhappy position. By shutting its eyes to the letter of the bequest, as it has unwittingly done for so many years, the Corporation can perpetuate the spirit of the Coolidge grant, and encourage the continued life and growth of debating. By insisting on the exact words of the will, the Corporation will only kill that which the bequest aimed to promote...
...Grant W. Wiprud '41, Alexandria...
This adjustment will not come this year or next. It may never come. What is important about the Grant Study is that for the first time Harvard has taken cognizance of the need for more fully "educating" its students. Increasingly it becomes important that the student himself is the subject of education--from his curricular activities to his daily hygiene...
Whether the aim of the Grant Study can be realized remains to be seen. The verdict of the distinguished gathering last week indicates that the hopes of the Hygiene Department may be fulfilled. In any event, the Study marks an important change in the approach to American university education...