Word: protested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...German Gymnasia. He very justly says that such a change is needed to make the elective system effective. The subject is timely, and well worth attention. Under the title, Shall Harvard Lead? C. H. Barrows, '76 urges educated men to be reformers. The article is an able and earnest protest against the indifference and dilettantism which certainly prevails among certain classes here. Whatever may be thought of the special reforms of which Mr. Barrows speaks, it will be granted that the tone of his writing is surely very high and stimulating. The piece is worthy of a wider reading than...
...pack of boys," as one New York paper styles us, or a "set of indifferent, dissolute young men," as still another journal classifies us. Every university has the same imputations laid at its doors in the same blind carping spirit. While we acknowledge all that is true, we protest against the sneer conveyed in the term "Harvard Morality...
...dislike to be forever harping on the old subjects, and their constant rewriting is as troublesome to us as the perusal of them can possibly be to the reader; yet we must once more raise our voices in protest against the temperature of the Chapel. Of late there has been no pretense made of heating the place, and yesterday morning the temperature was very near the zero point. It is positively inhuman in the persons who are responsible for this condition of affairs to let things go on as they have been going. A few more experiences like that...
...will put in a disclaimer. I am no Anglophobiac in this matter. English ways and manners are right and proper among English men. They are part of the English system and dove-tail in with existing institutions. I only protest against their importation here where they are foreign to the climate, distasteful to the inhabitants, and ridiculous in the propagators...
...ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather a difference than a contradiction, and the difference results from different interpretations of what anglomania is. If the Anglomaniac can be said...