Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...YORK, N. Y., October 10, 1917.--Five hundred Columbia students met at 11 o'clock today, on the library steps, following an announcement that a protest would be made against the Trustees in expelling Professors Dana and Cattell and causing Professor Beard's resignation. The meeting was addressed by former instructor Durant of the Philosophy Department who said in pant: "Professor Beard has offered his life and career as a sacrifice to the freedom of speech." Several students also spoke, one saying the meeting was not in the best interests of Columbia. A Freshman struck the true spirit...
...care" attitude of the citizen who has never bothered to learn the national anthem, who looks on the flag merely as a holiday banner. Last Saturday the men in the Boston crowds who uncovered as the colors passed were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed...
...also reported that the Honorable James Curley, mayor of all Boston, has protested to Secretary of War Baker against the injustice being shown to many Bostonians in choosing Harvard men in preference to Bostonians, although the Harvard men might not reside here. We presume that Congress did not intend to divide appointments like it divides postoffice appropriations. The mayor's protest smells of pork. Did he make it for love of country, that better officers might lead our armies? Did he make it from some sudden, unaccountable, and overweening sense of justice...
...Harvard Union for American Neutrality was avowedly a temporary organization, created to voice a protest against what we considered a great mistake on the part of our country. Now, but not until now, do we agree that the question of war or no war is past discussion. No one is more sympathetic than we with the ultimate aim for which we enter the struggle, namely, the triumph of democracy over autocracy and the spirit which makes war necessary. It has been in the past a question of how best to realize this goal. Now that our line of action...
...years of experimentation in technical devices and sonorous nothings. Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson,--nearly all, indeed, who have most completely mastered the literary art,--have had their periods of aureate preciousness beside which anything in the undergraduate poetry of the present pales into insignificance. Little is ever gained by protests against too much attention to technic. In a time when almost any style of delivery is tolerated provided the ball cuts the plate, such a protest seems particularly inopportune...