Word: panic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people's money. Miners on the whole do not make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value. We ought not to run the risk of permanently impairing our credit merely for the sake of the senators who buy their seats with the silver they have made...
...Hudson, L. S., opened for the negative. Both he and his colleague, Mr. Sanford, showed that a slight decrease in the tariff would increase the revenue while free trade would produce a business panic. The general argument of the negative was in favor of a decrease of the tariff. Mr. Russell Duane, '88, supported Mr. Norton very ably, advocating the free introduction of raw materials and told how in the case of wool a protective tariff established in 1867 had reduced the amount produced yearly by one-half...
...will then have a two weeks' vacation, looks triumphantly at the struggling mortal next to him who sees with horror that his first comes on Jan. 27th and his last on February 11th. Every time when this "mene mene tekel" appears on the walls of Cambridge, there is a panic abroad in the land. Let the capitalist, the owner of ten days' vacation hide his glee that the envy of others may be less...
Fire was discovered, Friday night, in the third story of the ladies' hall connected with the college at Oberlin, O. The building is a four-story brick, containing about 150 rooms and 250 girls. A wild panic ensued among the girls. Some rushed from their rooms in their night clothes, others shrieked and fainted, while a few were badly bruised by falling down stairs. Many of the girls were taken safely down the front stairs, but a few were driven back to the upper landings owing to the flames blocking up the passage. Several of the terrified young ladies were...
...gained which made the Union firmer, but filled them with grief at the loss of comrades, who, in many instances, had been their boyish playmates. Two traits were remarkable in our volunteers, steadfastness and tenacity. No surprise, no flight or severe fire of the enemy, threw them into a panic; and, in cases where a regiment was routed, all the rest of the division stood firm to the onset for the enemy. the lecture proved to be a most interesting one, and was greatly appreciated by the audience. The Historical Society will probably next year give a course of lectures...