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...position, and the cavalry had moved around and captured one of the two lines for Hood's retreat. Thomas now planned a flanking movement similar to that of the day previous by which he would gradually cut off the other turnpike road in the Confederate rear. This would compel the army of Hood to surrender en masse. That he did not fully succeed was due to the incompetence and slowness of subordinates...
...citizens for the support of public schools is that it may promote its true well-being, and perhaps defend itself from irreparable disaster; and that if this is to be assumed, then it is equally clear that it is not only its right, but its duty, to compel attendance under proper limits some efficient school, public, parochial, or private...
...take possession of Davidson College station as the trains stop, go through the cars singing ribald songs regardless of the presence of ladies, and parade the country round about so that women are afraid to be found abroad. This hostility seems to be especially directed against preachers, whom they compel to get off the walks and insult in every possible way. The Faculty seems to be unable to maintain order. Recently the Methodist Annual Conference was held in Statesville. One of the clergyman thus describes it : "On our way from Charlotte to States-ville, while the train waited at Davidson...
...late years certain proctors, as if exempt from any such custom, have refused to give up their rooms when requested, and it is on this matter that we wish to say a few words. Of course their is no law, excepting that of courtesy, which can compel a man to give up his room unless he sees fit to do so; but, taking into consideration the trouble such an action may cause, it hardly seems possible that any one can refuse his room if he gives the matter a moment's kindly thought. The entire college is indebted...
...title of Doctor of Laws is really to be regarded as an appendage to the governorship, it would be better to have it established by law than to compel Harvard University to perform the humiliating duty of bestowing it without regard to the qualifications of the recipient. - [Boston Journal...