Word: quit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...once famous William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., the alma mater of Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe and Randolph, had only one student last year, and is now closed. That one student quit because he couldn't stand the blame for all the deviltry committed for miles around. - [Post...
...Advertiser has the following sensible editorial on the recent disturbance at Dartmouth: "The young Dartmouth men, probably sophomores, who have broken their teachers' windows and soiled the chapel seats reserved for the faculty, will do well to quit college immediately, or invoke a full pardon, as such outrages cannot remain undiscovered and unpunished. The resolution of the sophomores to stand together in such dirty matters is discreditable and childish. How can these young men justify their co-operation in cowardice and absurd defiance...
...tempus." So far as known they did nothing worse than to act boisterously and possibly burlesqued the college attaches and regulations of which they do not approve. The faculty thereupon expelled the entire junior class, numbering seventeen. Immediately all the students met and unanimously adopted resolutions that they will quit the institution and go to other colleges unless the junior class be reinstated. The resolutions were presented to the faculty, whose response is being awaited...
...both well. I am willing to stand the dance, but there are some things human nature will not bear. While I hardly think of it in this place, the old saying about "A word to the wise," etc., I do hope that you'll make the hateful thing quit. If you don't, I'll pack up every blessed thing I've got and go home. Yours, as ever...
...spinners in the Sagamore Mill at Fall River have resolved to quit work on account of trouble with the management...