Word: granting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grant that there must be a natural aptitude before training begins its work; but with this aptitude training can do almost anything. Thus if the largest possible number of men were kept in training in one way or another, gaps would be easily supplied with men at any rate seasoned by long practice, if they had no other valuable qualities. The higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate...
...selections have been made by Robert Grant, George E. Woodberry, C. A. Prince, William G. Peckham, E. D. Hawkins, Edward Hale. E. A. Hibbard, H. W. Hardon. T. L. Frothingham, T. T. Baldwin, C. O. Brewster, and others. The book includes Dr. Peabody's preface, Dr. O. W. Holmes' poem. "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," dedicated to the editors of the Harvard Advocate, and three verses by Frederick W. Loring, to college comrades...
...past. Moreover, for this reason, it would be surprising indeed if Yale, Princeton and Columbia were not ready to help in leading toward the larger life of the university of the future. Columbia, while not opening her doors freely to women, has been among the first to grant either sex alike, official recognition of deserving merit; Princeton, in endeavoring to abolish the foolish hazing typical of the younger years of American colleges, has now tackled vigorously the subject of student conference, which has been so successful with us in opening the way for larger and lasting reforms in university government...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It has been the custom for undergraduates to grant the use of their rooms to seniors for class-day. So firmly has privilege been established by precedent, that it is now regarded by the graduating class almost as a right. There are, however, several men in the college buildings who are unwilling to conform to this custom. Such a man it has been my misfortune to meet. Of course the retention of a room may seem a small matter to him, but to myself it is far different. Indeed my whole spread depends upon...
...generous freshman exclaimed that the authorities should at least grant a Thanksgiving recess of three days to the instructors, if they do not see fit to give it to the students. This evidences an early development of Philosophy in the class...