Word: protest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...view of the rejection of many applications for rooms in the Senior dormitories for next year, a word of protest seems necessary. It appears that many applicants did not have bonds filed at the Bursar's Office, which fact disqualified their applications. Furthermore, it appears that this requirement was not mentioned on the blank forms or clearly stated in the University Catalogue...
...current number of the Advocate begins with three pleasantly written editorials, one on "the decline of the year," or the happy time following the strenuous season of football, the second a sensible protest against the idea "that Harvard had lost like gentlemen long enough," the third in advocacy of debating. The verse of the number includes a rollicking description of "The Maverick," who is evidently a free lance of the West, a use of the Word new to me, but a happy one, whether common or the author's invention; "Sistiana," honest and ambitions lines after reading "The Romaunt...
...Buehler graphically described the terrific charge of the Second Massachusetts Regulars, who rode to certain death without a word of protest. In this regiment 13 of the 16 officers killed during the war were Harvard men; their names are inscribed in the transept of Memorial Hall...
...Harvard Athletic Committee has just learned by correspondence with the Pennsylvania Athletic Committee that the football agreement made in 1897 was cancelled in 1900. This action had been overlooked by both committees until after lists of players had been exchanged and the recent protest made. Under the supposition that the agreement was still in force, the Harvard Committee had already taken action on September 29, 1905, by which Pennsylvania was notified that Harvard desired to terminate the aforesaid agreement after January 1, 1906. The effect of that action was merely to leave each party a free hand for the future...
...Committee has now advised the football management to make no further representations in connection with its protest, having been officially informed that the player in question has been declared eligible under regulations at present in force at Pennsylvania...