Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have approved the action of the faculty in rejecting the athletic resolutions...
...railway ride of four hours all told, all but half an hour of it in an express train and palace car, in addition a good hotel to stop at on arrival, such a hardship, especially when compared with the journey to Princeton the Harvard team makes every year? The action of the Harvard delegates at last year's meeting, in heading a movement for Dartmouth's expulsion is liable to be interpreted by outsiders as the result of pique, because Harvard was defeated by such a small college in both base-ball games of the preceding year...
...blow and sent it reeling back upon the main army. This was a complete surprise, and took Hooker completely aback. He seemed dazed, and in this emergency was knocked senseless by a shell striking a post on which he was leaning. This accounts largely for his slow and comatose action during the rest of the battle. with very little to check him, Jackson was pressing forward and had almost pierced the centre of the Union position when he was compelled to reform his men for a second attack. While reconnoitering in the dusk he was mortally wounded by a mistake...
Yesterday afternoon the petitions recently drawn up, and the resolutions passed at the mass meeting of Monday were presented to the faculty. The action taken by the faculty is printed in another column. Though at first the entire undergraduate body was greatly disturbed and excited by the resolutions of the inter-collegiate conference, yet there was a strong impression that the faculty would reconsider the step they had taken if the state of feeling among the students could be set before them in the proper light. Such measures were taken, therefore, as seemed best fitted to fully express the sentiments...
This result is what we felt justified in expecting, and we feel sure that this action on their part will go far toward restoring the harmony between faculty and students which has of late years been such a source of gratification to all the friends of Harvard...