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Word: protestations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Before the game was played yesterday afternoon, Captain Gardner entered a protest in behalf of '86, on the ground that Jones and Choate had acted as substitutes on the varsity nine and consequently were disqualified from playing on their class nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/10/1885 | See Source »

...different occasions when it was near the Druids' goal, the fine playing of the Harvard attack forced it through the flags, while the Druid attack was unable to score at all. Harvard's superior system of attack alone won the game. Before the game, Capt. Penniman, of the Druids, protested against Woods of Harvard being allowed to play. The reason for the protest was, that Woods had played on the Somerville team, and was therefore disqualified from playing with Harvard. It was generally agreed that the protest would accomplish nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Harvard Champions. | 6/1/1885 | See Source »

...order of events is open to protest until 8 o'clock this evening. If any protests are received the revised order will be publised to-morrow morning. The times at which the events will take place will be published Saturday. Attention is called to the necessity of being examined by Dr. Sargent before Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 5/14/1885 | See Source »

This great question of elective vs. prescribed studies is still unsettled, and everyone's opinion on it should be treated with respect. When, however, one argues from such premises as above, some protest, in justice to the name of truth, should be uttered. By reference to the Dean's report, our esteemed contemporary will find that in the year 1883-84, the most popular courses in our college were not by any means the "snaps" or easy courses that appear in our elective pamphlet, but that, on the contrary, the hardest courses, those requiring the greatest research, and the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/13/1885 | See Source »

...hear that it is proposed to add a Latin oration to the commencement day programme. This seems a protest on the part of the faculty against the ultra radical classics, and perhaps a mild assertion of the fact that there are students at Yale who have acquired at least a speaking acquaintance with the classics. And this is by no means an unreasonable exhibition. The Sheff. seniors write theses upon chemistry, engineering, machinery, and other subjects connected with their courses; the theologies deliver embryo sermons; the lawyers amateur pleas; the academics launch on the shivering audiences grand utterances of political...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Latin Oration at Yale. | 5/7/1885 | See Source »

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