Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...remarkable that in a college where modern literatures are so eagerly studied, so little attention should be paid to those of Greece and Rome. This neglect is partly due to the worthless utilitarian protest that we should study only things which we can sensibly use in our life, and partly because of the undergraduate belief that in Harvard the study of the classics is not made worth while...
...editorial on "The Young Instructor" is the one jarring note in the number. Conched in extravagant language and containing many obvious exaggerations, it is intended, ostensibly, as a protest against some aspects of the system of employing a large number of young instructors and assistants to correct themes and to supplement the instruction given by lectures in large courses. The protest is directed especially against the employment for such work of men just graduated from college, who, it is agreed, are "bound to be" narrow; and in some cases, where three-year men are assistants in courses taken largely...
...more strictly Harvard part of the number, the chief article is that of M. S. McN. Watts on "The Athletic Situation." This is one more protest against the assumed hostility to intercollegiate games of the special investigating committee. Its argument, like that of most students writing on this topic, is vitiated by assuming that wholesome competition stands or falls with the intercollegiate system. The excessive emphasis here given to the importance of intercollegiate sport in maintaining the influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students...
...second place until the third lap, when J. Early '07 of the Matthews team, was fouled by L. Watson '10 on one of the corners, which placed Matthews in the last position during the rest of the race. The foul, however, was not seen by the officials and Matthews' protest was not allowed...
...Alexis Aladyin, the head of the first Russian Peasant party in the Duma, in his speech in the Union on Wednesday, suggested that a petition signed by as many students as possible be presented to Congress, voicing a protest against the practises of the Russian government against its people...