Word: protest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...umpire, whose perception showed at times remarkable adaptability. Bissell's work in the box, including a double play with Kendall and Lawrence, was the feature of the game. The Lampoon men showed no end of endurance, and to their credit let it be said that they did not even protest the game...
...occupied by professors paying rental to the Corporation could be taxed. Starting with this concession, the city undertook to tax all College property during the years 1897, 1898, and 1899. For the first two years the College paid all assessments in full, but at the same time registered a protest which was carried to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1899. On January 4, 1900, the court gave its decision against the city. All the money paid out by the University, amounting to $3190.40, was at once refunded by the city, and a committee was appointed to consider further action...
...perhaps, somewhat distracted from simplicity and directness of aim." Yet these disadvantages "Seem to be only those incidental to any progressive condition and to be greatly out weighed by the gains reaped by both students and universities." "From a Graduates' Window" comes a remarkably well-informed and vigorous protest against the "athletocracy" that has sprung up in the great body of past athletes and coaches and present members of the Athletic Association to claim first choice in the distribution of football tickets. The condition last fall "simply shows how far professionalism has cankered our athletes' notions of propriety." "No arrangement...
Villiers de I' Isle Adam was held in great respect by the young school, who considered him as a living protest against the naturalistic tendencies of the time, and as the incarnation of idealism. Although he was well known and admired by the young writers of the idealistic school, he was almost unknown to the public, as were Verlaine and Mallarme...
...Phillips Brooks had to face was the unnatural relationship of religion to morals,--the relationship of speculative to practical religion. This same relationship between speculative religion and the simple way of living had existed for ages, and it was this state of affairs against which Bishop Brooks made his protest. The innermost key to the power of the great divine was his perfect balance between religious faith and true moral living. Religion at Harvard, as seen by an outsider, may be considered from three points of view. The point of view which may be taken from the Phillips Brooks House...