Word: blows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hooker was now placed on the defensive, and Lee and Jackson devised a plan of attack. The army of the Potomac was badly scattered in a wooded country where half its forces were useless. Jackson, by a long flank march, struck the isolated right wing under Howard a crushing 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...
...knowledge thus acquired is far more lasting and convincing than faculty decrees, rules or regulations." "As all colleges are not likely to agree as to the wisdom of these resolutions," he continues concerning the three-mile rule, "this one looks like an attempt against inter-collegiate contests. Such a blow would weaken the whole college system of physical education. It is the inter-collegiate contest that is the incentive which makes discipline and training endurable to the youth who hates restraint and loves his freedom...
...wealthier students, who can afford to subscribe to the maintenance of athletics. This for sooth brings about a spirit of democracy! Harvard democracy we had better call it. The seventh resolution caps the climax. Our patience has already been sorely tried, but the faculty have carefully kept the heaviest blow for the last. Our dear friend Columbia, with whom our experiences have been so pleasant, had to be propitiated, and this is the result embodied in few and choice words of the purest English style...
...athletic sports is the business of the faculty of a college. Neither does it seem to me that the evils growing out of these sports have assumed such proportions as to call for faculty interference in the way proposed. I cannot but believe that it will be an unfortunate blow for the physical and essentially manly development of our educated youth if these rules are generally adopted. The management of athletic sports might wisely be left to the students. They may make mistakes, but they also learn to remedy them, and thus learn wisdom at the same time. Better mistakes...
...young men, but without avail. When the officers arrested George Danby, one of the participants in the melee, the crowd turned upon and assaulted the police, hurling bricks, stones and tin cans at them. Officer Murphy was struck on the head with a brick, and Officer Conner received a blow from a stone. Four pistol-shots were fired during the disturbance, and one man claimed to have been shot in the hand. J. W. McBride was subsequently arrested in front of the station house for inciting to a breach of the peace. Fully 500 students followed the policemen...