Word: factionalized
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...adopted by the corporation. In this scheme but one day was allowed for the Thanksgiving recess, but since that time, until this year, the faculty have given us two extra half days on their own responsibility. Ever since this practice was commenced there existed in the faculty a faction opposed to this lengthening of the recess, believing it to be unconstitutional, if we may put it so. As the faculty is constantly changing in its members, and as the new members seemed to favor a short recess, the constitutional party at last prevailed and assumed control of the recess question...
...contest between the two factions at Ann Arbor in regard to Chronicle editors is becoming lively. The Chronicle editors answer the allegations of the Argonaut party in a counter-circular. Their address concludes: "Admitting for the moment that the action of the board was illegal: in that case there are legal means to obtain legal rights, of which presumably those who have consulted this "competent legal authority" are fully aware. Why then do they not use those means to obtain those rights, instead of seeking a doubtful vindication by the hazardous and expensive method of starting a new paper...
...Monday last both the petition and the protest were presented to the Faculty, who, after considerable discussion, laid both upon the table. In all probability it will be impossible to organize any Class Day celebration whatever, and at all events a discontented faction has succeeded in stirring up anew all the ill-feeling that has been considered by unprejudiced observers to be singularly discreditable to the class...
...affairs of the Senior Class, continued efforts have been made to secure a definite settlement of the disputed points. The committee of graduates, to whom the matter was referred for advice, recommended a compromise which made it necessary, after the nature of compromises, for each one of the four factions to resign something that each had cherished. When the representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise a matter of considerable doubt...