Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be far better for you to do this for you will not be accused of crying out against a theoretical grievance. I agree with you heartily in your protest against acts of insubordination and lawlessness by way of manifesting your discontent with the present compulsion. Nothing can excuse such acts as the recent disfiguration of the chapel, and nothing will more certainly impede your movement. Indeed, the various indications of late, that an element of rowdyism is reappearing a Harvard, will be seized upon as an argument that more, and not less restraint is needed...
...with a sense of hopelessness that we speak again on the subject of chapel going, for the only return that the protests of the students have received hitherto is a contemptuous silence. We state definitely, that we have full sympathy with any attempt to do away with compulsory attendance at prayers. And although we view the present movement to that end as doomed to failure, still, we trust that every undergraduate will sign the "petition," in order to express once more the feeling with which this foolishly wrong custom of chapol-going is regarded. At any rate...
...cane rushes at other colleges as childish exhibitions. If we desire to be consistent in our views, whatever we derogate in others, cannot be encouraged among ourselves even at intervals of four years. Of course, there will be the usual objection of conservatives who never desert a custom without protest. We must bear in mind, however, that the animosity necessary for a contest between the two lower classes no longer exists; generous rivalry has taken its place. Why, then keep up the form of a rush, if the spirit is gone? If a branch of a tree is dead...
Myers tells some interesting stories about the semi-professional actions of certain prominent English amateurs (?). The very idea of the Moseley Harriers or any other Harriers suggesting a protest against our champion is absurd, when the doings of George and Snook are taken into consideration. We may, at an early cate, take advantage of the opportunity to air our knowledge of facts on this subject.-[Sportsman...
...first to apologize in a way satisfactory to the faculty, and were suspended, but soon after signed a paper meeting the views of the faculty, and were reinstated in their class. This paper they refused to publish in the Dartmouth unless accompanied with a declaration that they signed under protest, and the faculty forbidding this, they withdrew the apology. They are now indefinitely suspended, and are not to be recommended to the trustees for a degree at the coming commencement...