Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...organization. Although I realize that in writing this to you I am laying myself open to the charge of having a personal grievance, I feel that my close association with the work of the Corps during the past two years makes it incumbent upon me to voice my dissent. No one who has followed the work as closely as I have can fail to realize in how great a measure its success is due to the untiring devotion of the volunteer instructors who have taken up the task which many of them would have been glad to avoid, and carried...
...draft bill, so bitterly fought in Congress, and made a law only against the uproarious dissent of various peace advocates and upholders of the national honor, seems already to have worked some large effect, although not one conscript has been called to the front, nor one single boy been torn away from the cherishing arms of his mother...
...value of the zoological and other collections which he amassed during these explorations. This researches take us a long way toward the solution of exceedingly interesting and important oceanic problems, and his work on coral-reefs, carried on almost entirely at his own expense, related in a complete dissent from the views of Darwin and Dana. It is to be regretted that Alexander Agassiz was not spared to give the summary of his coral-reef work to science...
...from the general verdict, to the effect that the CRIMSON has not realized all of its opportunities, that paper would naturally be the last to dissent. There is room for greater promptness and better form in the reporting of regular news. There are neglected fields for legitimate and useful journalistic enterprise. And above all there is room for a more vigorous editorial policy, in short for more of initiative and leadership...