Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In last Wednesday's issue appeared an article purporting to be a refutation of your admirable remarks on the Anglomaniac tendencies of American colleges. The positions assumed by the author of the reply are such as to merit an indignant protest from any patriotic student of Harvard...
...thoroughly American student I wish to protest against this narrowing down of our models. I cannot see that I am less patriotic because, finding that the dress of Englishmen is more becoming, and their speech more musical than our own, I try to copy after them in these respects. If the students of Johns Hopkins found that their meeting could be best conducted under the rules of the English "Commons," they were justified in using its rules. When we Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the best ideas and customs of other nations, it is not strange that...
This is the season of the year in which the one hour examination inflicts its terrors on the student; and a strong cry of protest is heard from certain quarters. Disagreeable as it may be to some, the one hour examination is very useful in necessitating a thorough review of a subject and compelling the student to acquire a tolerably thorough knowledge of one branch of his study before proceeding to the consideration of another, and for that reason it does the student a real benefit. As no time is more convenient for study than the present...
Phillips Brooks preached last evening in Appleton Chapel on "Am I my brother's keeper?" The sermon was an earnest and powerful protest against "indifference," and closed with a strong plea to the students of Harvard...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to take exception to a few of the statements made in the protest against the amount of critical work required of the sophomore class, recently published in your columns. In the first place, to pass by the fact that a critical theme, requiring in its preparation far more time than the descriptive one so strongly advocated, is therefore less desirable to some students, I think that the writer's conception of the office of criticism is utterly erroneous. Critical ability is not merely the ability to "tear down an artistic piece of work...