Word: granting
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Twenty years ago, on June 1, 1907, President Eliot announced at the Detroit meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs that the university proposed to establish a graduate school for training in business. With a grant of $12,500 a year for five years from the Rockefeller Foundation and with an equal annual sum secured by Professor Taussig from friends of the cause, the Corporation was enabled on March 30, 1908, to establish the Graduate School of Business Administration. It opened its doors to students in September...
...World," he cried, "old in civilization, old in philosophy, old in religion, old in culture, which hitherto has been weak in those material powers that have characterized the Western peoples. But that Old World, wrapped in slumber as we thought, has now become awake . . . and is asking us to grant it ... the freedom we have been nurturing and nourishing for ourselves for so many gen- erations...
Three hundred years ago a band of Scotsmen, wearied of ecclesiastical feuds and tyrannous wars, sailed for America. Seeking a climate like their own they landed in Acadia, secured a grant from James I, fought the French, remained at Nova Scotia and colonized. Later some of them moved westward. Today Scottish-Canadians largely people the Dominion...
...more alarums and excursions at the State Department than have the affairs of any other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts and the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have upheld his demand for compensation. The Cuban Government has refused...
Chicago Union. The Chicago Federation of Musicians announced a series of 30 public concerts through September, beginning Labor Day in Grant Park, by a 50-man orchestra. On the list to be invited to conduct: Frederick Stock, John Philip Sousa...