Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 270 of the refractory students...
...danger of being cut off by action of the Massachusetts Legislature. One member said that such payment, which had averaged $641 for fourteen years, was a useless expense, and one of those extravagances that, in accordance with the recommendation of the governor, ought to be cut off. Thereupon another stated that the matter was one that directly concerned the governor, who is commander-in-chief of the militia, and that Massachusetts had some pride in maintaining its dignity, for which it was willing to incur some expense. The report of the committee on military affairs relative to prohibiting...
...seniors at Hillsdale College, Michigan, wished to go off on a sleighride, but the faculty, for no apparent cause, objected and interposed, forbidding the expedition. The seniors nevertheless took their ride, and the faculty thereupon extended their leave of absence indefinitely, - in other words suspended the entire class. The other college classes then held several indignation meetings, in which they expressed themselves as determined to see that the seniors received justice at the hands of the faculty. They instructed their committees to notify the seniors that unless the faculty reinstated them soon on reasonable terms they would withdraw from...
...Yale race: "The method by which the annual Harvard-Yale boat-race is arranged is peculiarly clumsy and fraught with the utmost peril. About six months before the usual time of the race one of the colleges - say Yale, for example - proposes that a race shall be rowed, and thereupon each college confides the ensuing diplomatic correspondence to a committee. The Yale committee writes a formal letter offering to row under certain conditions, which will give the Yale crew every advantage. Thus, Yale will demand that if her crew arrives at the winning stake on the same day with...
...students of Adelbert College, formerly the Western Reserve College, indulged in a forbidden traditional frolic termed by them a "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...