Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the interesting relics belonging to the late Wendell Phillips was a collection of pikes and walking sticks. One pike had been carried by a man who took part with John Brown in the attack on Harpers Ferry. Of the canes one belonged to Daniel O'Connell, the Irish agitator, and another had been the property of Charles Sumner...
...high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...
...misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard-what common folks call 'a severe letting alone.' " Such remarks as these need but little comment from us. The fact is simply this: that the Spirit of the Times, has made a most unprovoked attack upon both Harvard and Yale, for reasons best known to itself. It must be evident, even to the Spirit of the Times, that it would be utter folly for Harvard to be in readiness to pull against any "inferior or country college" that wishes to issue a challenge, and how that...
...less harshly, wild-students than smaller institutions. But this can be truthfully said of their vices: They are more gentlemanly and less vulgar than those practised in country colleges. City students may drink more, and occasionally gamble; but they never give the Professors a charivari, or attack the President with bad eggs, or conspire against the college authorities and get expelled in a body. They have more affection and respect for their Alma Mater-more esprit de corps-more urbane manners. Students however, are not a class suigeneris. They are what their instincts and surroundings make them. An educated gentlemen...
...controversy with the Yale News in regard to its report on the recent freshman foot-ball game. One point, however, in an editorial on this subject which was contained in last Monday's News calls for further comment. The HERALD-CRIMSON, we wish to state, has no "eagerness to attack" either the News or Yale itself. Such an assertion is not only unwarranted but absurd. And further, we did not "deliberately mis-state" the item, as the editorial so courteously puts it. We gave it what we considered a most natural interpretation, and beg to disagree with the News when...