Word: martially
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...refugees, driven by hunger to purchase food at exorbitant prices, and goaded into violence by the grocer's brutality, are at length supported by the militia, who seize the store under martial law, and distribute bread to the needy. The play is well constructed, and its dramatic effects were well managed. The suggestion of the distant fire as a background for the action of the play was especially effective...
...Scales and the Sword," by Farnham Bishop, graduate student, is set in a small grocer's shop on the day of a great fire which upsets the social order of a vast city. It is the tragedy of individual blind selfishness and cupidity shattered against relentless martial...
...will produce a true Harvard song in word as well as in tune-- that will have the martial air of victory coupled with the appealing tunefulness of good melody--that man will be a benefactor of no small consequence to the University. Perhaps it will be in this competition that such a one will find his opportunity...
...rowing was only followed for three or four weeks. The animal spirits were manifested in bonfires in the Yard, and in other pranks. This is now worked off in organized athletics, though there is no necessity for the "rough, violent, fierce sports commonly thought necessary to the development of martial qualities." The fact that over 1200 Harvard men served honorably in the Civil War, over 160 of them giving up their lives, is ample proof that the "martial spirit" was alive in the Harvard of fifty years...
...University for a seed ground for the development and spreading of their ideals, and that although their number was small, they should not be discouraged, as it was rapidly growing. President Eliot then pointed out that as result of their generations of hardship, they had lost their physique and martial spirit, and advised and them go to in for more out-of-door life and to enter and the militia. He gave them credit for two great qualities, their beautiful family life and their power of intelligently directed, assiduous, and judicious labor...