Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Intervention is needed in order to prevent interference by foreign powers, which would - (a) Involve us in Continental politics. - (b) Threaten our political influence on. this continent v. Maximilian in Mexico. - (c) Menace our commercial interests on this continent. Blaine to Lowell, 19 Nov. 1881, 24 June 1881, Foreign Relations for 1881. - (d) Imperil our military position. Blaine to Lowell, above...
...Faculty of Phillips Exeter threaten to prosecute for slander the authors of a valentine which was printed last week...
...have taken part in all the changes of the past thirty years, the present proposal seems to threaten to destroy by one blow all that has been gained during that period by the persistent labor of a whole generation of scholars. The present senior year may fairly be said to represent the net gain in scholarship which Harvard College has made since 1860; and if this year is lost we must begin again at the foot of the long and toilsome hill which we have slowly climbed...
...think correctly be regarded as an abdication by Harvard of the leading position in regard to the higher liberal education which it now holds, and into which other colleges would promptly step. It would be interpreted as a surrender, or a serious concession, to the influences which constantly threaten the cause of quiet and thorough study, which in America calls for greater rather than less recognition and encouragement. While the principal colleges would seize the opportunity to step into the position of leadership abandoned by Harvard, many of the smaller colleges would be obliged to lower their standard to correspond...