Word: quell
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second place, this year happens to be a very crucial one in the matter. Last year policemen were put on duty in the yard to quell disturbance. Their presence was held by many to have helped, not to quell, but to excite disturbance. This year the officers of the University have decided to trust to the students implicitly. Not a policeman will be in the Yard; even the regular watchman has been told not to interfere. The University officers have practically said that, if students can control themselves, they shall have the opportunity of showing it. How that opportunity...
...spoke was the Indian question. This, said he, had shown the theory of ethics worked out on a large field and with dramatic interest, and the theory had been triumphantly sustained. The white man at first sought only his self-interest and drove the Indian away; then, to quell rebellion, he must pacify him with reservations: now he has come to realize that this is unjust to both sides, - the Indian is kept out of the American life, and the white man is kept out of the Indian's land. The result is that he sees he must do right...