Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large lake. Such was the position of the Union army on the morning of May 30, when the booming of guns on the right of the line announces that an attempt is being made to crush keyes' division. Reinforcements are quickly hurried up, and a sharp all-day fight results in the retiring of the Union forces two miles. Instead of pressing the attack the Confederates retreated. The battles of Glendale and Seven Pines followed shortly without decisive results, other than to protect McClellan's line of communication with the York river. An attack is now made...
...anxiety to do away with all danger of a "one man power," went to the other extreme and entirely separated the legislative from the executive, but did not define the powers of each. Thus the legislative body has gained the whole power, and it does nothing but fight over the spoils. The responsibility is so divided among the committees that lobbying can kill any bill, however important. In State affairs the same trouble exists, especially in Massachusetts. The governor has no power, and no responsibility. Boards and commissions, paid and directed by the legislature, control everything in the State...
...next speaker was Prof. Shaler. His discourses was confined to what he called the new fight between the Greeks and the Trojans. He had been accused of being a Trojon himself, possibly on account of his connection with the scientific department, and he was therefore glad of the opportunity to explain his position and that of the college on the subject. Hellenism, he said, was the most precious motive, after Christianity, in the intellectual life of today, and whoever would remove it would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets...
...novelty in college athletics was brought out at Rochester University last Monday. It was a fight with rubber overshoes between the sophomores and freshmen...
...selected from the best of the eighteen. Mr. Camp further stated that the other colleges had all strengthened their teams for the campaign of 1884, and if Yale was again successful in winning the championship, as he hoped would be the case, it would only be after a harder fight than in any previous season...