Word: punished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their trust in "Javeh," who would deliver them from their danger. Actually, the Assyrian King met with some disaster which forced him to return home. It was then supposed that this was owing to the direct intervention of Jalweh. The prophets said that the Assyrian invasions were to punish the Jews for their idolatry, but the invaders themselves had no such idea. The transportation of the Jews to Babylon was not a punishment, but was part of the general plicy of the Assyrian Kings. Isaiah preached reformation to the people and met with opposition, not because of his ideas...
...faculty of college public opinion. as in many cases the faculty were powerless without it. Drinking, cheating and lying are cases where the only cure is in the education of public opinion. Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home...
...complaint which our correspondent of to-day makes in regard to the use of reserved books in the library is one which has been heard continually for a long time. We hesitate, therefore, to enter once more upon the subject, The summary measures taken last year to punish the hiding of books seemed at that time to meet the exigencies of the case, but further repressive measures of some kind will be necessary if any liberty in this matter is to be given the students. The particular case referred to by our correspondent does not stand alone, by any means...
...very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would it be in us to refrain from securing what advice was possible from professionals who make oarsmanship their means of livelihood...
...less than 836 cases of boycotting came to light during a single month of the present year. The system is used to terrorize both laborers and employers. No jury will convict a member of the National League for fear of bringing this engine of oppression down upon it. To punish such crimes as these, a measure of coercion is the only possible or sensible policy for the government to pursue...