Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Jay Chapman '84, whose protest against the recent election of a Roman Catholic to be a Fellow of Harvard College was widely quoted in New York newspapers yesterday, is not and never has been an overseer of Harvard College, in spite of newspaper assertions to the contrary. According to an official statement issued yesterday Mr. Chapman has had no official connection with the University since his graduation...
...winds of protest, from faculty, alumni, students, that had beaten for a fortnight upon Yale's new dormitory, abuilding by order of the Yale Corporation next Connecticut Hall (TiME, Nov. 3), last week proved sufficiently violent to drive the workmen from the site and sweep the Corporation into renewed conference. The Committee on Architectural Plans was to meet with, hear the views of, other elements of the college. Meantime, building was suspended. The new dormitory, dubbed by the Yale Daily News "Hush Hall," because of the "secrecy" attending its advent, was anathema because it was to copy and stand...
...Harvard is a great University and, like all great institutions, is subject to criticism. It is well that this criticism should come from within rather than from without. The absurdity of organized spontaneity has long been apparent. It is refreshing to see that from the student body comes a protest. Censorship will always be a bone of contention. The editorial on conditions at Widener should arouse interest which may be translated into action...
...logic of the illogical has never penetrated the American mind. Judging by the less subtle standards of Western civilization, no act seemed more certainly doomed to a fruitless failure than that of the anonymous Japanese who several months ago committed hara-kiri near the American Embassy in protest against the exclusion law. In this country a man who committed suicide, however elaborately, in rebuke to the foreign policy of Japan would rightly be regarded as a fool; one active worker would be of more value to the cause than a thousand mute inhabitants of the grave. Yet in Japan...
...veteran General registers the only protest. Since seeing a photo graph of the model, he has been un able to sleep nights. Although a U. S. soldier might fly on an eagle, says he, he would never carry a sword instead...