Word: quarreling
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...also upon election night. As a matter of fact, the officers of the Technology division carried out perfectly the arrangements of the managers of the parade to prevent a rush, and, last Tuesday night, Technology, no less than Harvard, ignored the efforts of certain papers to provoke a quarrel in "Newspaper Row." While we should have enjoyed, as much as the Harvard students, the excitement of a rush, we felt that, after the efforts made to abolish this contest, we would have been at least discourteous to be the first to revive this old custom...
...improbable.- (a) The mischievous influence of the press is powerful.- (1) Shown in the case of England's entering on the Crimean War.- (2) Shown in our recent dispute with England.- (b) Our inconsiderate action in 1812 shows this.- (c) The recent Venezuelan quarrel proves...
...remarkable favor in lighter operas, and its efforts can aim no higher. The story, it is remembered, is that of Carmen, the cigarette girl, the prettiest and most coquettish of all in the factory, who throws a bouquet to Jose, a brigadier at Seville. Jose falls in love. A quarrel ensues among the girls. Carmen, declared the assailant, is ordered to prison. She fascinates the luckless brigadier, Jose, until he connives at her escape, and is himself placed under arrest for it. Carmen returns to her wandering gipsy life, and tempts Jose to desert. Carmen's love grows cold. Escamillo...
...remarkable favor in lighter operas, and its efforts can aim no higher. The story, it is remembered, is that of Carmen, the cigarette girl, the prettiest and most coquettish of all in the factory, who throws a bouquet to Jose, a brigadier at Seville. Jose falls in love. A quarrel ensues among the girls. Carmen, declared the assailant, is ordered to prison. She fascinates the luckless brigadier, Jose, until he connives at her escape, and is himself placed under arrest for it. Carmen returns to her wandering gipsy life, and tempts Jose to desert. Carmen's love grows cold. Escamillo...
...mere intellectual convictions. The lever of the great English Rebellion was the Conscience of England, and though Lord Bacon has said that all revolutions begin in the belly, this is in no wise true of such as bring about enduring political changes. So during our own Revolution, though the quarrel certainly began about a point of law, yet the enthusiasm which carried it through disaster and privation to success was kindled and kept alive by the few pregnant abstractions into which the genius of Jefferson had condensed the principles of Bodin and Sidney and the eloquence of Rousseau. No wiser...