Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON has in former years had occasion to protest against exaggerated estimates of students expenses at Harvard. After careful correction by individual students, by the college papers, by President Eliot's annual report, and especially by Professor Palmer's thorough investigation and summary, it would seem as though the false accounts of the cost of living here ought to have been refuted forever. Notwithstanding this, the New York World, in its issue of April 6, published a long letter proclaiming that Harvard "Is a college for rich men's sons only," and misrepresenting the facts of college life from...
While I am complaining, not without reason, I trust, against abuses of privilege, I wish to add an emphatic protest against college "sponges." Doubtless there are occasional times when earnest men do not, for a sufficient reason, bring their text books to a recitation or lecture; in which case it is entirely proper to ask the opportunity to look on with a neighbor in class, or glance over his lecture notes at a later time. But when a man systematically fails to bring his text-book to the class room, or cuts one lecture out of every three, and then...
...communication is a protest against the fact that of recent years the editorial comments of the Advocate "have become more and more querulous." The correspondent maintains that unless undergraduate criticism becomes more judicious it will pass for idle babble...
...though somewhat justifiable, has aroused too much ridicule and contempt all over the country to allow us to go further. There is a feeling among many that to confine our athletics to Yale will be an unwarranted and unwise step. Let this feeling be shown now in a vigorous protest against the new regulations...
...Boston Herald prints a very strong protest from an old graduate who takes a great deal of interest in Harvard athletics, against the recent regulations passed by the Athletic Committee. He says that by their action they have hurt Harvard greatly in obliging her to take such an unfortunate stand and have made her the laughing stock of Yale and Princeton. The making of such regulations, would after a victory have been foolish, but after defeat they are more nearly disgraceful. He further says that the spirit of interference shown by the faculty is very detrimental to the welfare from...