Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent meeting of the senior class at Dartmouth it was unanimously voted to protest against the recent action of the faculty in indefinitely suspending the editors of the Dartmouth...
...where the professor only meets the class occasionally, and then only for a few minutes, should not be paid for more dearly than the most advanced courses in History or Mathematics. The students have suffered this imposition for two years already, and it may last several more unless they protest. If the college is in need of funds, it is certainly not fair to raise them by imposing extra fees on men who can ill afford to pay them. The writer of this article will not profit by any change in this matter, but he would like to see redressed...
Most men will, we think, endorse the protest of our correspondent, who signs himself "R," against two rows a day by the crews. What is now a pleasure and a means of recreation will become a business so irksome that many who now enjoy their daily row on the river will only go to the river from a sense of duty, and a false one at that. It is not right that preparation for the class races should prevent a man from bestowing even a fair amount of work on his college duties. They are unmistakeably first in importtance...
When the meeting was called to order, Mr. Reuter was placed in the chair and presided throughout the session. The first business was the protest made by Harvard against the decision in the Harvard-Yale game of last year. It will be remembered that by gross decisions of the umpires, both Yale men, the game was won by Yale by a score of 2 to 1. Our team has never allowed that it was a real defeat, and so appealed. The convention rushed all the business on account of limited time, and the protest was tabled. Among the little business...
...race from the second eight of a sister institution was rather more than her haughty spirit could stagger under. She looked upon it rather in the light of an insult than as a friendly attempt at accommodation. Consequently her reply to Harvard partook of the nature of a childish protest. The great brains of Pennsylvania's boating men were quite unable to divine what possible reason there could be for Harvard's not putting her best crew on the Charles river to face her, especially as the expense would amount to nothing and the men would be already in training...