Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...articles which have appeared from time to time in the Herald, not only on the subject of boating but on the action of the faculty committee, have contained so many personal allusions of a disagreeable nature, that we feel called upon in the name of the students to protest. We do not take this action as an attempted defence of the advisory committee or any one else, but as exponents of a gentlemanly settlement of difficulties without descending to disagreeable personalities and vilification in public newspapers...
...lover of the good and manly game of foot ball, allow me to enter my protest against any rash condemnation of the game. I am sadly aware that the present tendency is to emasculate all games and exercises, and frown on strength and courage as old fashioned things, relics of the dark ages; to teach our youth that all games requiring these qualities are brutal and degrading...
...students who would attend chapel and church if the rules did not require them to do so. They are active in prayer meetings and other religious work that is optional, so to speak. Compulsion is to them no hardship. They do not fully understand the feelings of those who protest against it, nor do they take into account the inevitable effect of compulsion in the minds of those who unwillingly submit. It is from those who do not feel the weight of compulsion that instructors are selected, who are in course of time to take part, in some colleges...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-I desire to enter a protest against the action of the representatives of Harvard at the informal foot ball convention at New York following the Yale-Princeton game, in moving and voting (if the New York papers report their action rightly) to award the championship to Yale. I do not think that they represent Harvard's attitude on the question; certainly I am well assured that the greater proportion of the Harvard spectators of the game do not sympathize with their action. They probably desired to support the referee. Had they merely voted to leave the result...
...than ever before. But this makes it only the harder in the eyes of the world for us to give up the game gracefully. Many men, too, have temporarily lost their interest in the game on account of the poor work of the eleven, and will not make the protest against the prohibition that they ordinarily would. This is unfortunate and we advise every man to remember that such a low condition of affairs will not last, and that it is the duty of every man who takes even the slightest interest in foot ball, to redouble his efforts...