Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...helped by the other colleges, we want to be placed on equal terms with them. We have uttered our protest against professionalism, but it seems that we are ahead of our times. We do not believe, however, that the regulation of the faculty should be rescinded, even should Princeton withdraw from her position...
...American university of the future. "What the American university of the future is to be," he says, "must be decided within the next few decades. Two ideas are on trial, and one must stand and the other fall. Either Harvard must check her career of revolutionary innovation and even withdraw from some of the positions already taken, or else Yale must abandon her cautious conservatism and stand abreast of her venturesome rival. Meanwhile, there is no denying the fact that the bulk of undergraduate opinion at Yale favors Harvard on this question." The drift of such a sentiment, we believe...
...this address, but its peroration was in substance as follows: 'Ladies and Gentlemen - The remaining events of our programme are a series of beastly, barbaric, brutal boxing bouts. Those who do not wish to see the bruised, battered, bleeding bodies of the boxers borne to their barracks will please withdraw during the intermission of five minutes now given for that purpose.'" The five minutes passed, but no one withdrew. "The moral of this incident," says the Times, "is that ladies of undoubted culture and refinement can find something to admire and enjoy in spirited bouts of boxing, contested by gentlemen...
...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 the institution. The seniors, feeling that this meant utter ruin to the institution, whose interest they have at heart, decided if possible to overlook the wrongs which they have received at the hands of the faculty, and make amends for their act of disobedience by submitting the following apology under...
...mustache that he had only just secured after a great outlay of time and money, and which, it was confidently believed, was the only bona fide article in the entire class. The sophomore class, we are surprised to learn, abets its colleagues in their wicked acts and threatens to withdraw from college if the penalty is enforced against the offenders. This action should help them none. It is time that a warning should be given and an example made, even at the sacrifice of an entire class. The public will uphold the college in any repressive measures against this monstrous...