Word: harass
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However improbable it may seem, debating costs money. We have not any fund on which to draw; nor do we harass the students begging for names on a subscription list. Obviously the only method left, by which we can secure money, is to sell tickets to the Harvard-Yale debate. This ticket sale is the only means we have to raise funds to send a team to Princeton and to pay the expenses incident to the Harvard-Yale debate at Cambridge...
Yale has always congratulated itself, and with good reason, on the freedom with which it has managed its athletics. We have here no Faculty or Alumni committee to complicate and harass our action, and hithertoo the subjects that interest the whole body of students have been decided by them in the way that to them seemed best...
...there ought to be some way to make those, who do not intend to use their lockers, give them up to men who would use them. On the other hand, men, who now hold lockers and intend to use them later in the year, should at least cease to harass the nerves of their less fortunate fellows by leaving their lockers open in the present wanton manner...
Several months had been passed in these fruitless efforts. Grant was now no nearer the city which was as safe as ever. It was almost the end of April. Something must be done. A new and, as it proved, successful plan was devised. To harass and occupy the attention of the enemy a cavalry raid to the east and rear of the city was carried out successfully by Colonel Ryerson, while Sherman and his corps watched the works just above Vicksburg. Grant moved the rest of his army to the west side of the river and making a wide circuit...
...especial his foe to harass...