Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar disregard for civil liberties was apparent in their actions when students met to protest the dismissal. Since the Liberal Club is now minus the required faculty supervision, and since discussion of social problems is forbidden elsewhere within the college grounds, expression of their opinion has been effectively denied students. As a result, they resorted to public demonstrations to impress on the college officials their demand for Johnson's reinstatement. Rather aimlessly molested by policemen on one occasion and finally allowed to continue their meeting, they later attempted a discussion in the college building itself, and were ejected when...
...striking fact revealed by the straw vote is the strength of the Socialist candidate. Norman Thomas doubtless possesses a personality which appeals to many college men, but the Socialist vote is more than a personal tribute to a popular character. Nor is it to be explained as a mere protest against the politicians in power during the depression. The size of the vote for Hoover shows that the unreflecting protest vote in Harvard is inconsiderable. The conclusion seems unescapable that the large vote for Thomas is the sign of an extraordinary increase of independent thinking among the students. It probably...
...burn candles, especially at Commencement when as many as eight candles would glimmer in each of old University Hall's 178 windows. But candle-burning seemed dangerous and in 1827 Brown's President Francis Wayland put a ban upon it. No use for students and alumni to protest by burning a tar barrel on the campus; their president rushed out from his house and angrily drove them away...
According to the protest field by the plaintiff, the defendant has throughout the past year copied trade names and methods, originated in the Square by the Student's Laundry. The plaintiff based its case on the claim of property rights...
...organization which is pretty much taken for granted by the undergraduates. Yet to graduates who seldom return save for athletic contests, the band is a distinct attraction and often one of the few links to their own college days. Indeed, if the band were broken up, the loudest protest would come from the alumni. In addition to the lack of recognition by undergraduates, the members receive no subsidy from the university except for part of the expenses of their one outside trip. All others are defrayed from dues collected from the players themselves. However, the band continues to do good...