Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tech. men threaten to push the Harvard men out of their position in the torchlight parade next week. The former are jealous because the latter have been assigned a place in line very near the head of the procession. If the Harvard contingent is as large as it is expected to be, the Tech men will undoubtedly lose their courage before the night of the parade...
...which we have thus far passed over, but which is destined, if it continue, to make great trouble and leave an ugly mark on the American game. This is interference. It is something which has grown rapidly in the last three years, and which, if not legislated against, will threaten the very life of the game. It is not to be rushed hurriedly against and cut out by rules whose after affect no one can measure, but it is the duty of every true foot-ball player to give his best attention at once to such action as shall confine...
...hear on one day that the employees of the Cambridge Railroad threaten to strike; on the next that the scholars of public schools in various parts of the country are demanding longer recesses; and on the next, as a third great blow to education, that the tennis "shacks" want higher wages. What is Harvard coming to? Each hour almost the evils of strikes seem to be closing in more seriously upon her. It is hard to say where the next blow will be. Perhaps the goodies will call for more pay and fewer rooms. But it is to be hoped...
...famous vigilance committees. The committee of 1856 was highly organized. The committee of '51 had something of the form of an outburst of popular feeling. In closing, the lecturer said he could not help drawing a lesson from this early history of California, a lesson of the dangers which threaten a Republican form of government. Every step an individual makes away from our social organism is a losing and ruinous...
...Amherst College senate threaten to withdraw their base-ball nine from the league if betting on the game becomes as prevalent as it was last spring. The senate are supported by a strong element in the college who believe that "backing up" the nine by wager is the most effective means of demoralizing the players...