Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeming disinterest of the Sophomore and Junior Classes in connection with class elections, the Student Council decided last night to abolish them, unless too great a protest is received from the student body. The Council has always paid for these elections, and feels that since the duties of the officers are entirely honorary, and since less than one third of the classes respond to the voting, the money spent for printing and mailing the ballots might be used to better advantage...
...making of steamed chocolate pudding, foamy sauce (bread run through the steam tunnels, we suppose), up-side down pudding, etc., and that the untutored undergraduates merely prefer ice-cream. We editors like ice-cream, in moderate quantities, but are getting bored. We eat it merely for protest, not for preference. Maybe December 6th will find the Harvard desserts more consonant to the spirit of the House Plan...
...Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. "Wallace's education and association with Wall Street have made him what he is today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew a little more." Shenandoah's farmers paraded through the streets of the little country town, in solemn protest. At the fair grounds a dummy marked HENRY WALLACE was soundly spanked by three stout rustics with barrel staves...
Against this bull-like entrance by Militarist Araki into the china shop of world diplomacy, the Japanese Foreign Office dared not protest directly, but Yomiuri, a Tokyo newspaper close to Foreign Minister Hirota, cautiously declared: "The Foreign Office is believed to oppose the Conference since the idea behind it is based on lack of real knowledge of the international situation...
Last year the closing of the libraries late in the afternoon and all day Sunday aroused a great deal of protest. Justified as an economy measure, these regulations have proved a nuisance, and, particularly in the case of the Fogg Museum library, have made studying hurried and difficult. In most libraries it is at least possible to take out books for study overnight, but here many of the books are so valuable that they are never allowed to leave the building. Furthermore almost every course in Fine Arts requires that a certain number of photographs be memorized, and reproductions...