Word: protested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finally, he casts a most unwarranted slur on the character of a gentleman to whom Harvard boating owes more than Harvard can ever hope to repay; but this is quite in keeping with the character of the whole communication. I cannot close this letter without once more making a protest against the conduct of certain graduates, who, while taking an interest in the welfare of the college, for which we have, indeed, every reason to be grateful, will take no trouble to inquire into the merits or demerits of any dispute in which Harvard is engaged, adopting that view which...
...already written to a member of the Yale committee, and is now awaiting a reply. Mr. Hammond also spoke of Yale's employing a professional coach, saying that Harvard would not take a very decided stand against Yale's method, but would simply content herself with making a protest...
...future the final realization of all our hopes in this matter, and therefore those of us who blindly grope, and have almost despaired of any such millennium, should without doubt do their utmost for the final abolition of these evil regulations by means of continual protest and energetic petition. The thought that a distant posterity will profit by our exertions, can fill us with a melancholy satisfaction...
...fashion in which it turns upon the visitors from Yale and dubbs them "Connecticut roughs." Bad as has been the conduct of Yale in this matter, and deserving of censure as the college may be for upholding and even praising the conduct of its team, we cannot without a protest allow the impression to prevail at Yale that the students of Harvard are reduced to the extremity of indulging in such unseemly vilification as a means of upholding their cause and of defending their rights...
Unless by some unlucky chance we are treading upon the hollow crust which overlies the deep volcano of a satirical editorial, we wish to enter our protest against the suggestion advanced in the last Advocate, that in order to secure victory our team adopt next year the Yale method of playing foot-ball-the method of illegal fouling and of deliberate maiming. Harvard can never descend to such a game, and if the suggestion of the Advocate be serious, it is, we think, highly reprehensible and unworthy of our esteemed contemporary...