Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annoyed by needless noise and conversation. On yesterday morning two students made themselves generally obnoxious by discussing in a loud voice, their maximum terms for tutoring. There were at this time many students in the "stack" who were trying to make the most of a special privilege. Cannot this protest receive the support of public opinion? Surely students who are supposed to be worthy of special privileges, should show themselves sufficiently public spirited to regard the rights of others...
...another page we print a protest against the present course pursued in that branch of the English department which has to do with the prescribed sophomore themes. Looking at the subject impartially, we think the writer has fairly stated the case and from the numerous complaints that have reached us, we judge that his opinions are shared by a large number of men in the class. One piece of descriptive writing is worth, to the student, half a dozen criticisms, no matter how well or carefully the latter may be written. It seems like reiterating a self evident truth...
...evidence of the spirit in which Princeton is conducting foot-ball mattes this year. The candidates selected were foot-ball men, but, as the managers of the spree were unwilling that foot-ball men should incur the danger of a heavy fall, the candidates were barred out, and without protest acquiesced to the decision of the managers. The freshmen had no man to put up against the other candidate of the sophomores, and so lost the heavy weight...
...Harvard student is proverbially fond of fault finding. Nothing is more to his taste than a dignified protest against some great and crying evil, or an undignified but lively "kick" against some minor form of grievance. The latest abuse upon which student opinion has felt itself obliged to frown may be classed with the smaller annoyances of college life. It seems that the students who have elected courses requiring their presence at the Agassiz Museum are subjected to great annoyance by the custom of some of the instructors of detaining their sections until the hour has fully expired. By this...
...calm way refuse to play any more games because they have the series "cold," as they claim. Now we do not claim that our freshmen could have won the series had they played the requisite number of games; they probably could not have won. But what we protest against, is the cool way in which Yale, '88, has broken written agreements, and refused to play the series out, because, for sooth, they did not care to take the time and trouble ! As for the News' claim that the freshman championship was acknowledged to be lost by Harvard, '88, quoting...