Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wiestling also did excellent work. The umpiring was inconceivably bad. Grant seemed determined to made every decision against Harvard, his ruling on Allen's foul being more than usually flagrant. It is a poor excuse to offer for a defeat that the umpire was unfair, but Harvard should protest Grant's engagement next year after his performances in the Princeton and Yale games...
...several newspapers, notably one at Yale, have published incorrect reports of the affair, we have obtained the exact facts, which are as follows: On account of the protest against Bonine, which if he had been placed, might have given second prize to third man, Mr. Baxter was deputed to place the third man. As the runners finished, first and second almost abreast, and third add fourth almost even, but 4 feet behind the leaders, he could not accurately judge between first and second without running the risk of making a mistake in his special duty of placing third...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - We desire to enter our protest against the unfair treatment received by the "Peachblows" in regard to the game scheduled for the 31st of May. That date was agreed upon at a meeting of the captains of the contending nines, and no notice was received of the intended postponement until that morning, after several of our nine had come to Cambridge from their homes out of town at the greatest inconvenience...
...Hale in a recent letter on the "prayer petition" question, against the tone and tenor of some parts of which one was compelled to protest, dwelt strongly on the fact that "Harvard" expects her sons to be "gentlemen" - not to be guilty of dishonest or dishonorable acts. Harvard men surely do not need, as a body of students, to be reminded of that fact, though the writer is to be thanked for his manliness in boldly stating...
Harvard's protest against Dan Gallanaugh as coach for the Yale crew, on the ground that he is a professional was withdrawn when it was found that he merely visits under orders from Captain R. J. Cook. - Clipper...