Word: threat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Military Academy at Worcester, Mass., sent word to the faculty that, unless they were allowed to visit the theatre, the skating rink, and a certain billiard room on their afternoons out, they would leave the academy. As the faculty did not accept this ultimatum, the ten carried out their threat and abandoned the institution. The spirited way in which these young gentlemen resented the tyranny of their superiors must meet with the deepest approval. What is a paltry education worth, after all, compared with the inestimable privileges of frequenting the skating rink, and one's favorite billiard saloon...
...that city. The faculty of the college forbade the performance, notifying all students connected with it that they would be expelled if their intentions were carried out-that they could take their choice, and be either men or monkeys. The students decided to give the performance notwithstanding these threats, and the program was carried out. A meeting of the faculty is called to decide what action will be taken in the matter. Considerable interest attaches to the affair, as it is thought the faculty will not back down from their threat, but that the students will be expelled...
...sensibilities of our representative at that mournful conference, "what concessions were made to Harvard?" Of course, the last resolution was necessary to make the others of any effect. We think better of Yale, however, than to believe that she will be forced to adopt these measures by any such threat...
...past, there can be no danger to apprehend that the college press will ever array itself in opposition to the college faculty except in the most extreme cases, and then it were far wiser that a most careful in quiry be made before such a measure as a threat to suspend be taken...
...Paris, having murdered a man, were hanged by the officers of the law. The university officers and students demanded full reparation. If this should be refused, they vowed they would leave the town. This could easily be done, as they owned no libraries or buildings. Upon hearing this terrible threat, the provosts kissed the corpses on the mouth, asking their forgiveness, and with great pomp delivered the bodies to the university. Another story is vouched for that in 1229 A.D. 20,000 students and professors emigrated from Paris to Oxford, on account of a quarrel with the city of Paris...