Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising of the Zulus, and took possession of the Boer government. Although the townspeople wished to be annexed to England when the Boers were driven out in 1878, the Boer farmers objected, and on being refused independence by Gladstone, revolted, but after defeating the English at Majuba Hill, they...
...which some undergraduates are always bound to show on the occasion of an athletic victory. One might as well blame a man or a newspaper for reporting the account of the Bram murder trial; since this was such a terrible murder and such a disgrace to civilization, why not suppress everything about it? Why not suppress some of the scandalous debates of the U. S. Senate or the House? Surely these debates are a discredit to the nation, and whoever reports them is, according to the standard of the writer in the Graduates' Magazine, "plying a shameless trade...
...that part of the President's Report devoted to the College, Dean Briggs discusses in a very interesting manner dishonesty in written work and the efforts of the Administrative Board to suppress it. The Dean points out the failure of the former ruling of the Board concerning the mere separation from the University of students who hand in written work not their own, and enumerates the reasons which led up to the adoption of the new rule of publicly posting the names of such offenders...
...Report of Dean Briggs.In the annual report of the Dean, considerable attention is given to the discussion of the struggle which has been made to suppress dishonesty in written work. He recites the attempt made to stop such dishonesty two years ago and the failure of that attempt. Dean Briggs thinks that the reason for this state of College morals is found in the double standard,-a shifting for the convenience of the moment, from the character of a responsible man to the character of an irresponsible boy. "The administrative officers," says he, "accept without question a student's word...
...plain duty of the student body to support this committee thoroughly in whatever it determines upon. Now that the situation has been fully explained and is thoroughly understood, every Harvard man should feel himself personally responsible for the success of our next celebration, and should be prompt to suppress the first exhibition of the wrong sort. This is especially necessary in view of the fact that there is sure to be present at any celebration of students a large and unruly town element...