Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornell recently the freshmen won the cane rush after a desperate two-hours' conflict. The victory was celebrated by a procession through the streets of Ithaca. There were nearly 800 students in the rush...
...choice of History courses are very slight: for example, take History 13, all that we can find out about this course is what is in the catalogue,- "History 13, Constitutional and Political History of the United States (1783-1861) Tu. Th. Sat.," or "History 5, the conflict of Christianity with Paganism, Origin and Development of the Roman Primacy to its alliance with the Holy Roman Empire...
...seemed inevitable. The dangerous classes of Paris were eager for a revolt and threats were made that if M. Ferry were elected president he would have to wade through a sea of blood. Mobs marched through the streets clamoring for Grevy's resignation, while the government prepared for a conflict. Grevy promised to resign, but was persuaded that the election of Ferry, which was sure to ensue, would be the signal for the overthrow of the Republic, and so refused to keep his promise. If the leaders of the Chambers had not had great sagacity, we should now be witnessing...
...ecclesiastical nurses so kind to her in her tender years have let her go at last-somewhat reluctantly. She knows, meanwhile, that she could not have passed her boyhood without their help, and her relations with them are sure to remain kindly. There is no talk here of the conflict of religion and science. Nobody here gives the name "religion" to that dead forest of theology whose dry limbs are cracking and falling with every vigorous wind that stirs. And nobody has done more than the clergy to free old Harvard from certain false theories as to study which fettered...
...that the Indian wars have broken out again in the West, the question of lands allotted to the Indians is one of great importance. Mr. Atkins thinks that the allooment of lands in severalty is a very good thing, and that Congress in doing this will prevent further conflict between the races. The area of land under cultivation has increased 25,000 acres over last year...