Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first business brought before the meeting was the protest of Hopkinson against Manual training; after a discussion, the executive committee of the Association decided that Manual Training had played an ineligible man on the team and that therefore the championship must be awarded to Hopkinson, whose team had the next best record. Hopkinson, however, refused to accept it under the circumstances, and it was finally voted that the championship should not be awarded this year...
...desire in name of common sense to protest against the absolutely idiotic arrangements provided by the football management in the manner of selling admission tickets at the Carlisle game. Even after the game was called a line of purchasers extending from the single ticket booth to the gate of Soldiers Field were still waiting their turn. The only persons benefited by such arrangements are the speculators. There is no reason under the sun why a college which attracts such great crowds should not provide adequate facilities for the purchase of tickets at the grounds...
...wish to protest against the brutality of the Boston police, last night, after the parade, in cruelly and without provocation beating and wounding a woman and several students in the crowd in Park Square. The policemen had been told of the possibility of a rush and were evidently anxious that none should take place. But at the time when they made the assault the students were gathered together without any intention or serious thought of rushing, and were merely cheering while waiting for Cambridge cars...
...give up his interest in public affairs. He was always ready to respond to the call of duty. Always a lover of his party, he saw with apprehension the direction which affairs were taking in that party. His warnings were not heeded, and he last raised his voice in protest against the action of the party which he had loved and served so well. Never did he stand before the people in such a light of clear statesmanship as at this time. Then, while the country was admiring the man, and seeming about to bestow further honor upon...
...American constitution is a direct protest against one man power. Constitution Art. I, II, III. B The power of appointing all (sixty) committees is contrary to this spirit (1) Lodges in one man power to shape every bill presented. (Nelson, Atlantic Mon., LXIV, 69,) (2). Such power with an unprincipled speaker would work inconceivable ruin. (Nelson, Atlantic Mon., LXIV, 7). (3) Such power even with a good speaker is bad; (a) Likely to cause irremedial mistakes. (b) The committees are so numerous that many must be composed of men of small calibre. C It is arbitrary powers deprive members...