Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time for Harvard to view with alarm the rival institutions that are springing up within and in the vicinity of Boston. That so many colleges, professedly rivals of Harvard, have been founded so recently almost at her doorsteps, must indicate some wide-spread dissatisfaction with the spirit and aims of this university. That there are really objections, however, that are serious and deserving of great concern, I do not believe. Harvard's growth and progress has perhaps been too rapid. These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian...
...said that great alarm is manifesed in certain quarters lest Ben Butler will carry his power as governor to the extent of insisting upon taxing Harvard College. Gov. Butler might not be made an LL. D. if he should...
...Turkish palace at Constantinople is reported to be practically in a state of seige. The Sultan's alarm is occasioned by threatened sedition among the troops...
...five minutes after ten last evening the sullen fire-cracker sounded its note of alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared...
...apostrophized the preacher, and cried out, "Hurrah for liberty of thought," "Down with the Reactionists." A riot ensued, the congregation attacking the students, who, however, escaped in the confusion. One woman was much hurt in the scuffle. On the same evening in two other churches a false alarm that the students were coming to disturb the service gave rise to slight panics...