Word: revolt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Adelbert College, in Cleveland, has declared in favor of co-education. The action has caused a revolt, and eighty students have refused to attend recitations...
...classes, the procession is made to have a decided political significance. Especially is this so in the case of the Senior Class. The senior vote per see is more important from a political point of view, than those of the younger classes. This particular vote shows a greater revolt than do the votes of the other classes against the hitherto predominant political party. To carry such a vote, then, in the procession would be to violate the previously agreed understanding of the class. It would be, besides, a disregarding of the previous college custom not to turn the parade...
...disposed toward them. Men at college fully realize the nature of the times into which they have been thrown and when allowed to shape their own courses, naturally follow out this new line of education. Cast-iron rules of education must lose their place as this feeling of revolt against them grows stronger, and it is gratifying, as we have said, to see the President of our university take his present stand...
...revolt of the seniors at Hamilton College shows no signs of weaking. The class numbers fifty, and is united. Parents have been written to by the college authorities asking aid in enforcing discipline...
Eight professors and seventy-five students of the St. Louis College of physicians have revolted. The college was started five years ago under the patronage of several influential democratic politicians. The attempt to combine pathology and politics has been unsuccessful from the beginning, and while the Dean of the faculty, Dr. Bauer, and Dr. Hazard, a medical member of the Executive Committee, have drawn their salaries regularly, the other professors have been put off from time to time with unwritten promises to pay. This, together with a lordly way the directors had of disregarding any request made by the faculty...