Word: protested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...protest was entered against Worcester high school, on the ground that it was really two schools, and thus ineligible to membership in the association. It was, however, decided, by a vote of 8 to 5, not to allow this protest...
Such action should not be allowed to pass without protest. Harvard's two large sets of engravings are the only very valuable works of art in her possession, and without them it is difficult to see how even the diminutive Fogg Museum is to be filled: certainly no expenditure in that direction by the University can be expected. If, as we are told, "At the Fogg Museum the Gray and Randall collections would take about one-third of the total space for exhibition and administration purposes," there is surely no way in which such space could be more suitably occupied...
...Many professors at the Universities are openly proclaiming in the newspapers their disgust at this disgraceful sport and protest against allowing its continuance. They are complaining a great deal about the behavior in general of a majority of the students. The study of the sciences has become a side issue...
...than a scrub organization and then call this a University team and represent Harvard as such, is the height of presumption. There is, as things stand, nothing to prevent their next step - that of placing an "H" upon their sweaters - a proceeding which I feel sure would arouse a protest from the whole college...
...might be said that a protest against the name would have come in better grace before, rather than after the defeat by Brown. We do not think so. The University at large cares very little about the name of a scrub team so long as it limits itself to playing unimportant teams. But when a few men who call themselves the University team play against the accredited representatives of another college and the impression is given to the public that the contest is between the two colleges, the University has a right to demand that the team which bears...