Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...experiences in England and in this country had been forgotten. But to quote again, "Professor Laughlin has grouped together all the scattered material of our own history, and nearly all that is useful from the history of other nations, to equip those who desire to enlist in the fight on the side of correct principles of finance. The arrangement of statistics regarding the production and coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting in graphic form the yield of the mines in each of the periods in the world's history marked by any unusual increase...
...fight between a freshman and a professor's ten year old son occurred on the campus last Thursday noon. After a severe tussle the freshman gained the advantage. If the boy had been one year older he would have wiped up the slush with the '89 man. A snow ball is a very small thing to cause such a waste of physical energy. Cornell...
...exchanges further down. "A Happy New Year to you all," begins one amiable critic, remarking later on that "our verdant little High School contemporary informs us this month," etc. Very clearly the holiday greetings were not intended for the "little High School contemporary." The battles which exchange editors fight with each other, with such keen weapons as cutting sarcasm and irony, are closely watched by the readers, who never fail to rejoice when the blood has ceased to flow and the space in the papers is given to something more readable...
...sensational story appeared in the New York papers last Wednesday describing a fight between two Harvard students over a sweet-heart. It is needless to say the article was without the slightest vestige of truth...
Both Oxford and Cambridge have two or three representatives each in the House of Commons, and party spirit runs high in the universities. According to the Oxford Review, which speaks mainly on the subject, the two members of the university will surely be Conservative. Nevertheless, a rather amusing fight is going on. The various debating societies are now offering resolutions in support of Lord Salisbury's ministry, and the undergraduate politicians are exercising their oratorical powers in mimic Parliamentary contests. One man, who signs himself "Conservative," writes in the Review a vigorous appeal to all holders of sound political opinions...