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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bill to punish prize fighting passed the Mississippi senate yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/25/1882 | See Source »

...mode of instruction in oratory. It is a sign, not of strength, but of weakness, in a faculty, if it is obliged to expel students for expressing obnoxious opinions. Either these opinions are well-grounded, or they are not. If they are, is a student to be punished, rather than thanked, for calling attention to what needs reform? If they are not, has the Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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