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...Advertiser has the following sensible editorial on the recent disturbance at Dartmouth: "The young Dartmouth men, probably sophomores, who have broken their teachers' windows and soiled the chapel seats reserved for the faculty, will do well to quit college immediately, or invoke a full pardon, as such outrages cannot remain undiscovered and unpunished. The resolution of the sophomores to stand together in such dirty matters is discreditable and childish. How can these young men justify their co-operation in cowardice and absurd defiance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1883 | See Source »

...tempus." So far as known they did nothing worse than to act boisterously and possibly burlesqued the college attaches and regulations of which they do not approve. The faculty thereupon expelled the entire junior class, numbering seventeen. Immediately all the students met and unanimously adopted resolutions that they will quit the institution and go to other colleges unless the junior class be reinstated. The resolutions were presented to the faculty, whose response is being awaited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/12/1882 | See Source »

...both well. I am willing to stand the dance, but there are some things human nature will not bear. While I hardly think of it in this place, the old saying about "A word to the wise," etc., I do hope that you'll make the hateful thing quit. If you don't, I'll pack up every blessed thing I've got and go home. Yours, as ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STANDS IT NOT WITHIN THE PROSPECT OF BELIEF?" | 5/18/1882 | See Source »

...spinners in the Sagamore Mill at Fall River have resolved to quit work on account of trouble with the management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 4/3/1882 | See Source »

...strikers in the Pacific Mills at Lawrence still remain firm, and more weavers are expected to quit work today. The Catholic clergy have advised the hands to return to work. A general lockout is said to be imminent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/20/1882 | See Source »

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