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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 5/18/1882 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1882 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

...last the girl reached the vicinity of the enemy; and here she hazarded all in a direct assault. In other words, she boldly addressed the diffident youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

SOME excitement has been caused among the Yale students by an assault made upon J. W. Keller, one of the editors of the Yale News, on Thursday, by Robert S. Rodman, a Senior, of Rock Island, Ill. Rodman felt aggrieved at an article published in the News which seemed to him to reflect upon himself. A rough-and-tumble fight followed Rodman's blow at Keller, and the latter got so much the better of his antagonist that he is about the street, while Rodman is confined to his room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

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