Word: subverts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late, certain insidious reports have been current in the University to the effect that the authorities are taking measures to subvert the most ancient and jealously-guarded of all undergraduate privileges, to wit--the natural and inalienable right of the student to sleep when and where he pleases. Rumor has it that the "goodies" are instructed to report all those that are found in bad after midday, with the result that several of our most prominent sleepers have been caught under the new rule. Some say that the Dean's office is responsible--others, the Regent; while there...
...brief for the prolongation of the present unbearable situation. If Irish partizans, however, would receive in this country the protection of liberal laws, they must grant to the Loyal Coalitioner and the independent thinker the same freedom of expression for which they clamor. They must cease seeking to subvert the machinery of American government to the schemes of Irish separatism. They must abstain from the intimidation of voters and the baiting of public officers...