Word: ferreted
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...resolutions adopted by the students were empty words or would go for that; the only way for the students to make it perfectly plain that the outrages of Saturday were never to be repeated was to go to work vigorously to ferret out the offenders. Morever the action taken by the students Monday night was approved by the public press and apparently by the people at large. To fail to carry out the intentions of the previous meeting was tantamount to backing down from our position...
...plainly the sentiment of the meeting that the students should take some active part in the detection of the perpetrators of the outrage, and after considerable discussion it was voted that a portion of the money raised by subscription shall be devoted to employing officers to ferret out the miscreants...