Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make light. One freshman, it is reported, after long and vain entreaties on the part of the authorities and assurances of protection, has at last tremblingly confessed the story of his wrongs. One short sentence tells it all: "They stole his peanuts." No ordinary case this of personal assault, of demolishing property or of like indignity, but a bold and malignant robbery. We are not told the full particulars of the awful story; but it is surmised that there exists at the college a secret band of sophomores whose dark and wicked design it is to prey upon the freshmen...
...grand jury has found indictments against William Leonard and Michael Dolan as principals in the assault upon Charles S. Childs, the superintendent of the Cambridge Cemetery, and also against Dennis S. Norton for being an accessory to the same before the fact...
...president and two professors of the University of Minnesota have been arrested for assault upon a student named Asa Paine. In company with a party of students upon a lark Paine was pursued by the defendants, and being closely pressed drew his revolver upon them. Whereupon Prof. Pike drew another and fired upon Paine, the ball taking effect in the thigh...
With such a strong team as Harvard has this spring, it is not likely that she will be required to resort to the defensive game to any great extent. But while the men are practising to strengthen their assaults on goal, it will be well for them to try from time to time a systematic advance of the whole team, neglecting their defence to a certain extent, and using all possible means to strengthen their assault. In the excitement and nervousness of the first few minutes of a game, and with the disadvantage of a strange ground, none...
...Matthews.A pugnacious policeman tried to quell a serenade of Ann Arbor students recently, and now the pugnacious policeman mourns a fine of $6.00 and costs for assault and battery. Still his provocation was great, and many may be inclined to think the punishment too severe...