Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senatorial contests in Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska remain practically unchanged...
...boys of Northfield College, Minnesota, were having a great deal of fun in changing a physician's sign for that of an undertaker, when a big kettle, full of warm tar, was emptied upon them from the roof of the house. More than twenty of them had to throw away their clothes and get their hair cut very short...
...Minnesota the Republican majority was reduced...
...beauties of paternal college government were well illustrated by the recent escapade of the president and two professors of the University of Minnesota with a wild and wilful student. The account of the affair is highly dramatic and very edifying. "There had been rumors," it reads, "that students were contemplating a lark, and President Folwell, with Professors Moore and Pike, decided to watch for developments at his house. The night wore on till 2 o'clock or later, when President Folwell discovered a party approaching and started to meet them. They dropped the gates which they bore...
...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...