Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sorry to learn that in the spring the Holmes' house, in spite of all its associations, is to be removed or torn down. We are not rich enough in America in historical monuments and memories to let so noteworthy a building go without a protest. Here was the headquarters of General Artemus Ward, during the first days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with...
...against them, the sad fact remains that at present it is the custom here for the students of a large proportion of the courses to be inflicted with them once or twice a year. Of course for the present we can do nothing more than to register a protest against the system in itself, but we think that as long as it exists, it might very justly be reformed in certain points. Especially so as to the time of infliction. We think it is manifestly unfair for andinstructor to hold one without at least two weeks warning...
...Pall Mall Gazette thus comments on the English game of foot-ball :-"The heavy list of casualties reported from the two universities last Saturday will revive the protest against the dangerous character of foot-ball. And yet, in spite of all protests, the game increases in popularity, notably at the two universities and round London. A hundred and twenty matches are now played in the suburbs where thirty or forty were played fifteen years ago. and in the north the system of county matches makes rapid strides. Is the game more dangerous than it was ? Most of the accidents occur...
...early masters was John Lovell, whose portrait hangs in Memorial Hall, and it was during his administration that a party of Latin School boys made the famous protest to the British General Gage, against the petty tyranny of his troops. At this time the only requirement for admission was ability to read a few verses from the Bible...
...Senior Societies at Yale" is the subject of a vigorous protest to the Nation from a member of the class of '84 of that institution. The writer claims that the Yale papers are all under the control of the secret societies...