Word: granting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last spring had nearly completed their course and earned their degrees when they volunteered for their country's service, Princeton very properly felt that she could afford, on condition of the completion of the intensive work they were required to do here in preparation for such service, to grant them their degrees. That, however, is quite a different thing from giving degrees ad libitum to all who go into the service. Princeton nevertheless recognizes that the students who respond to the call of their country at the sacrifice of their college course should receive some high official mark of distinction...
...decided to award no sweaters this year to any of the teams in order to save expense. The grant of insignia to the Freshmen who played against Yale was approved...
...this year there is another reason for better rates, which excluding all other considerations should determine the commission to grant them. That is the war need of the government. Daniel Willard, the Chairman of Council of National Defense, in sounding the warning against permitting the railroads to approach exhaustion, pointed out the terrible consequences that had happened in France where such a condition had been allowed to take place. If the carriers of the nation decrease in efficiency, the whole industrial system will be tied up and the war work of the government jeopardized. From fairness to the railroads...
...callow youth, privileged to write for one of the evening papers from Camp Grant, declares that "the salute must go," that "the American people are not given to permitting themselves to be lowered socially by any mark of deference...
...ignorant nonsense for a metropolitan paper be brought back and given a few rudimentary lessons in what the salute--either military or civilian--means. We do not know where he was bred, if he was bred at all, but it is time if he is to write at Camp Grant or elsewhere he learned that no man, American or otherwise, is "lowered socially" by any "mark of deference." A man is "lowered socially" by the neglect of marks of deference, not by yielding them...