Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meets with expressions of universal horror and condemnation throughout this country, and is considered the worst blow to the fortunes of Ireland that could have been given. The Land League has published a manifesto deploring the occurrence as fatal to Ireland's hopes. Four men have been arrested on suspicion...
...fire was deliberately set. Two other fires have occurred in Amherst suspiciously like this in origin. The destructive fire in Cook's block, and the fire in Palmer's block, and the fire in Palmer's block each originated in the attic in such a way as to warrant suspicion that they were incendiary; the Walker Hall fire began in the same place. Just now the college feels its loss much, and vigorous attempts are being made among its alumni and friends to raise the necessary money. It has been suggested that the Western alumni take up the matter...
...favor one side or the other, even if he is not personally interested. Often a decision of the umpire wins of loses the game. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to the freshman nine that they get an umpire in their Yale games who is above the slightest suspicion of bias or prejudice. Every one knows that the umpiring of the freshman games at New Haven has been unsatisfactory, to say the least. The captain of the freshman nine should take care that no umpire but a professional is chosen, and, if possible, he should be chosen from...
...personally a stranger, to attend an ecclesiastical meeting at which many eminent ministers were to be present. On arriving, he was surprised to find that after making himself known, no attention whatever was shown him, and from certain ominous whispers he inferred that he was an object of suspicion. His position was embarrasing, and the conduct of his brethren inexplicable. In vain he sought to make himself agreeable or useful, and when at last he was constrained to make a formal demand, he was informed that a few days before his arrival a letter had been received from the president...
...Yale Record brought us several news items that are so original and startling that we reprint them herewith for the benefit of our readers. From its columns we learn that "Inasmuch as the editors of the HERALD are very careful to preserve a strict incognito, there is a suspicion rife about Cambridge that it may not be a college enterprise, but an outside speculation." We also learn from its columns that the HERALD is printed at the office of a city daily. Taken as a whole, judging from its outside appearance, the last number of the Record is an unusually...