Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advocates of total abstinence are injuring rather than helping their cause, if the indecent attack recently made by Dr. Miner and his friends upon Professor Peabody be taken as an example. We do not know whether the former have the entire sympathy of the Prohibition party or no; but we do know that the abusive language which a certain henchman of Dr. Miner's used in reference to the College preacher is thoroughly disgraceful and contemptible. Dr. Miner himself also alleged that Dr. Peabody had advised young men to drink moderately rather than not drink at all. This the latter...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...
BEFORE the attack made by a policeman upon a party of students in Cambridge Street a few nights ago is quite forgotten, it is due to the young men concerned that a few words of explanation should be given to the public, and I venture to trespass upon your space for this purpose, because both my official and my personal relations with most of the members of the party enable me to speak of their character and standing with full knowledge, and also because by the courtesy of the Police Commissioners I was present at the hearing and listened...