Word: granting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Edward Leslie Grant '06, who met his death in action in the Argonne Forest last fall will be honored by a memorial which is to be erected at the Polo Grounds in New York. Captain Grant was a former third baseman on the New York National League nine. Mr. John McGraw, manager of the New York Nationals is heading the committee which is to raise funds for the memorial...
...detailed study of facts upon which success in life is based. At the same time she has made it as easy as possible for them to enter the courses which the University offers. And now, as a fitting recognition of her trust in her sons' worth, she is to grant those who left for service a degree "honoris causa" upon the completion of three-fourths of their work...
Those who receive this degree will be fully aware of its peculiar significance and value. It means that the University has confidence enough in these young lions to grant them an honor which she is sure their own diligence would have won if the opportunity had been given. It means more. That degree has been won not alone by a man's own sacrifice, nor the sacrifice of our thousands of warriors. It has been bought with the blood of 278 of our own class-mates, and with the lives of that host of dead...
...published in the "Boston Globe," the Faculty of the University was rather bitterly criticized for their alleged refusal to give academic credit to those men who entered the service. The boys "skipped their classes without even saying good-bye to their professors" and now the wicked Faculty refuses to grant them recognition of the education gained in the "world of men." Such action is "unthinkable," according to the "Globe...
...months' artillery school at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and will from there be assigned to regular units. Of the officers commissioned in infantry the greater number have been stationed as instructors in the various colleges east of the Mississippi, while the remainder have been ordered to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois...