Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...several youths take two or three spoons; and one Princeton man, under the encouraging smile of his "cow," slipped spoon after spoon to the inside pocket of his coat. Quite an extensive barter trade is carried on between West Point and Poughkeepsie-spoons for bell buttons. I could not resist, and took one myself...
...flank and gain possession of the indispensable road back to Chattanooga. During all of that day there was heavy fighting with but little advantage to either side. This was only preliminary. During the night Rosecrans reposted his army, and in the morning was in a better position to resist attack. This was soon made by Polk on our left, which was commanded by Thomas. Although hotly pressed, the left wing stood firm and Thomas called for reinforcements. With want of foresight, Rosecrans made a movement of troops from the right just as that portion of the army was about...
...have been interested in looking over a list of questions discussed at Harvard in ante-revolutionary times by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts. As early as 1743, Samuel Adams chose the question, "Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He argued that it was lawful, and thirty years later he stood first in advocating such measures. In 1765 Elbridge Gerry, who became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, answered the following question in the affirmative: "Can the new prohibitory duties, which make it useless...
...receive from legitimate professional training. It is true that a few foolish and weak men have been persuaded to enter the professional arena, but that is no reason why the hundreds who do not should suffer for the faults of the very few. Men who are not able to resist the fascinating wiles of the ungentlemanly professional trainer, are not worth looking after...
...dressed in knickerbockers and canvas jackets, eagerly awaiting the announcements of the term averages and the annual bowl-fight that was immediately to follow. The sophomores had on the grounds a ponderous wooden bowl about 2 1-2 feet in diameter and fully 2 inches thick, strongly dovetailed to resist the most powerful efforts of the freshmen to break it. The object of the sophomores in this annual fight is to put the last honor man of the freshman class into the bowl, while the freshmen fight to get their last honor man off the field and then to break...