Word: protested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rules, if adopted, will remove many objection able features from freshmen athletics In the past the playing of dropped men and professional school men on freshman teams by both Harvard and Yale has caused a great deal of bad feeling and most of the games have been played under protest. The new constitution does away with all such difficulty and requires that a freshman team be one made up exclusively of freshmen. This puts freshman contests on a perfectly just basis an leaves no reason for dispute or protest...
...year, leading men to think this preparation must be thorough and exhaustive. We cannot think that any professor means to examine them rigidly on the first half year, but only to ask, as has been the custom, a few general questions, if any, If such is the intention, we protest against it earnestly. If the custom in our college examinations had been to require a full knowledge in the final examinations of what has already been required in the mid-years, or, if a long warning had been given, we should say nothing whatever. When, however, we have but three...
...placing of the final examination in English C on the Wednesday before class day has aroused a great deal of complaint among members of the junior class. This is a grievance of long standing and has called forth an annual protest for several years past. According to the present arrangement, many juniors get through all their examinations except English before June 10, and are compelled to stay in Cambridge one or two weeks longer than they otherwise would. If it is the object of the faculty to keep them in Cambridge as long as possible it is difficult to understand...
...reported upon very good authority that several of the best riders in college refuse to enter the Tech. road race next Saturday. We wish to protest most emphatically against such a decision on their part. After accepting Tech's, challenge Harvard is bound to make every effort towin the race. The contest is not between individuals nor between clubs but is in reality an intercollegiate event. The riders form a team in exactly the same way as the nine or crew-a team working not for their own honor but for the honor of Harvard. It is essential there fore...
...articles are short, and most of them bright and entertaining. The first editorial discusses the new regulation in regard to registration. After condemning this rule as a possible "sop to Cerberus," the leader closes as follows: "We admit the principle of the resolution is indisputably correct, but we protest against it as rank injustice unless it be accompanied by longer recesses." The system of special reports is next criticised as "carried greatly to excess," so that many are crowded into a short period, and thus "men are overburdened with work." In the last editorial an improvement in the elective list...