Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...faithful performance of duty does not justify the confidence which the Faculty has reposed in the class. At all events, this regulation must have a fair trial, and we should like to know by what right a professor undertakes to annul or abridge this privilege, or to threaten students with conditions, merely because they avail themselves of a right granted by the Faculty ? We had supposed that professors, as well as undergraduates, are amenable to the regulations determined upon by the government of the College, and the former ought to set an example of obedience to the rules established...
...threaten savagely...
...That threaten to accelerate...
...many different kinds of dogs owned by H. U. students, the brown ones threaten to become the greatest nuisance, for, in general (observing Soph. loquitur), there is no end to them...
...these first cold days, when the falling snow covers grass and trees, and the dark clouds seem to threaten a long storm, it is quite amusing to notice the different remarks with which men greet this earnest of winter. Some say, "A little more of this will give us very fair sleighing;" others, "How pretty it makes the Yard look!" but most declare with a sigh, "Now for wet feet and cold rooms and frozen ears." When we think of the number of this last class, it really seems worth while to consider whether winter could not be made...