Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allow women pupils, but we feel sure that the College will never be subject to the feminizing sway. That timid idea, so tentatively proposed by the Governing Board will not be adopted at Harvard. The stern spirits of every Puritan from Miles Standish to Cotton Mather arise in solemn protest. We see the inventor of the original "New England conscience" deliver his fateful warning.--Never. The drear halls of Sever shall not be made frivolous. No shall they invade the awful precincts of "Mem". For this is your God: Education. And Education is austere. Elseit were not Education. Amen...
...suggest that every ex-service man in the University write to his Congressman and forcefully protest against this political outrage, suggesting at the same time that those who can't work be given a fighting chance to earn a living at the country's expense. A. GARDNER 1L W. S. CARLISLE 1L HOWARD BOOKER...
...President Lowell has said, to turn out men who by "their adaptability and resourcefulness," can adjust themselves to whatever conditions the future may bring forth: to prepare natural leaders not technical experts. Linked with the recognition of the value of general education should be the university editors' sane protest against those who would deny to Harvard teachers that freedom to form and express their own opinions which has been one of the more cherished rights of English and American tradition. Advancement of society in the past has been wrought by its critics not by its admirers. It is essential, particularly...
...United States, by its rejection of the League, is in no position to take any active part in concert with the other powers, toward solving the problem of the Near East. But our people, in company with the nations of Europe, have not been slow to voice their protest against the decision of the allied governments. For over a century the Powers have endeavored to maintain the hopeless anachronism of Turkish rule; and for over a century that policy has brought dissension and wars upon Europe, and terrible suffering upon the subject races of the Empire. It is time...
...dived into the water for the sake of an ideal," he said, with startling disregard for the rules of grammar, as he wrung the moisture out of his clothes, "and as a protest against the use of force to promote school spirit...