Word: granted
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...reason why the petition for the omission of registration after the Christmas recess was not granted was that the statute fixing the length of the recess is established by the President and Fellows with the sanction of the Overseers, and the scheme of registration is merely a Faculty regulation to carry out the provisions of this statute; the Faculty therefore felt that they had no right to grant a petition which would make the statute of the higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur...
...Faculty, at their meeting yesterday afternoon, refused to grant the petition asking for a change in the date of registration after the Christmas vacation from Saturday to Monday. Ten hundred and thirteen men signed the petition. No reason is given for the action of the faculty, and it is understood to have been far from unanimous...
...other articles of interest to the warlike-minded are James Grant Wilson's sketch of Von Moltke and the second part of Arthur Sherburne Hardy's account of the Japanese Army. One would hardly believe that the author of this matter-of-fact description of military maneuvers in Japan could have written the "Wind of Destiny" and "Passe-Rose." But Mr. Hardy was a soldier himself once, while calculations of the velocity of Japanese riffles must be easy work to the Dartmouth professor of mathematics...
...home and imperial affairs; James Bryce, Handbook of Home Rule, 31. 39.-c. Coercion is a failure: John Boyle O'Reilly in North American Review, May. 1882; Lord Thring in Handbook of Home Rule, 67, 202. 203; Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 262 pp. 508-509.-d. Refusal to grant Home Rule is dangerous.-e. Balfour's land bill not a solution to the problem; Julian Sturgis in Forum, IV. 657; Grey in Nineteenth Century, July 1890; Ireland's Alternatives in Handbook of Home Rule...
...endowed scholarships appear in the list, making the whole number ninety. The number of students enrolled this year is as follows: Fellows 8, Graduate students 93, Academic department 504, Scientific department 155. Special students 90-total 850. The first honor man of the present senior class Academic, is Samuel Grant Oliphant...