Word: frightener
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...last the university has become desperate and thinks to frighten American colleges into rowing with her by declaring that unless within sixty days her challenges are accepted she will claim the championship of America. By all means let her claim it if it will bring her any satisfaction, but if she expects that 'public opinion' will support her claim we fear she is doomed to bitter disappointment...
...conduct of Harvard in the matter of the race," cries the Record, "has been so arbitrary, distrustful, almost surly, that we think that the large element of our college which fears that Harvard wishes to frighten us into conceding to them undue advantages, is almost justified in its harsh supposition...