Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Union plans were soon formed. Sherman, lately arrived from Mississippi, was to attack the Confederate left, and threaten their base of supplies at Chickamauga Station. This point was very strong, but the attack was to be unexpected, and Thomas in the centre, and Hooker on the left were to attack at once, if the troops opposite them were drawn away to oppose Sherman...
...ways has the support been very disappoiting. The number of newcomers to the University who have allied themselves with the association is small, and altogether out of proportin with a natural increase in this branch of athletics. And again, the winter meetings threaten to be little better than a failure. There are not at present sufficient entries to ensure success, and there seems to be no promise of a sufficient number...
...benefit to the students than any other form of athletics, because they are of such a character that a very large number of students can, tentatively at least, take part in them. We are frank to say that, if the heavier and more exciting forms of athletic contest should threaten to kill out interest in the lighter and more quiet forms, we should be opposed to them. Athletics, like everything else, ought to be for the many and not for the few. We believe that the opportunities which the Athletic Association afford for training are of the very best...
...faculty wish it clearly understood that this action is aimed at no particular organization. In their opinion, freshmen organizations threaten to become too numerous, and public entertainments by them are too much sought after...
...could. Next came the matriarchal, an inevitable reaction from the former, in which marriage by capture was succeeded by marriage through captivation. Then came the union of one man with one woman for life, but against this the great forces of individualism has begun to act, and threaten to sweep everything before them. Individualism, carried to an extreme, means isolation, and isolation and marriage can be connected only by accident. Marriage, dominated by individualism, becomes the mere sport of personal caprice, and loses every whit of stability...