Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each time. If a student walked around Cambridge or the yard on the Lord's Day, he was fined not more than three shillings for this act of irreverence, and might be suspended or rusticated according to the enormity of the offence." But this seemed too much and a revolt was begun which like all its predecessors was speedily overcome. But there were many single acts of disobedience : the candles lighting the pulpit were filled with powder, and the Bible was occasionally taken. When the services were held in Harvard Hall, the students fastened its doors, blew up the bell...
...whole matter is simply this, that the present system of conferring honors is considered by many of the students to be unjust, since it frequently permits those to obtain honors who are not considered by the college to have earned them. This led to a mild kind of a revolt, which was speedily checked by the faculty, who forced into taking honors those who had previously declined, on penalty of losing their degrees. It is but a natural outcome of having a faculty which takes but little note, if any, of student feeling in matters which are of the greatest...
...Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity publish a quarterly, of which the second number has appeared. It is nearly forty years since the society began in Yale in a revolt against the too great exclusiveness of the older societies; and it shows no sign of decay...
...revolt among the students at a Paris school called the Lycee Louis le Grand will occupy a conspicuous place in the history of academic insurrections. It originated in the displeasure of the boys at the expulsion of one of their number, and before it was finally quelled a detachment of forty policemen, one of whom was seriously wounded, had to break open the dormitories behind whose barricaded doors the rebels had intrenched themselves. The pupils sent preposterous terms of surrender to their principal, who promptly declined the same, and thereupon expelled and caused to be ejected no fewer than...
...alarming revolt has occurred at Lyons...