Word: protested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...document was prepared before the official announcement of the government that a protest had been made to Germany was published. The committee, however, decided to send it just the same with a note of explanation concerning the priority of the petition...
...vigorous protest from Yale against extravagant expenditures in college athletics has come not a moment too soon. It puts into plain language what the authorities of many other institutions have been thinking but have not ventured to speak aloud. Yale can utter this protest with good grace for she has not been by any means the worst offender...
Already a low undertone of protest and complaint against the seven o'clock bell is being heard from the dwellers in the Yard. Communications and denunciations will soon appear in their annual abundance. The justification of this old custom is to be found in the fact that it is successful in calling forth words of execration and condemnation. The Senior requires something upon which to vent his discontent, and then it distracts his mind from harmful meditation on the probable results of the world war, or the possibilities of more comprehensive knowledge of the fourth dimension. As David Harum says...
...discussing the benefit and pleasure that the fellows have gained from Mr. Clark's advice and encouragement; I do feel it only just to protest against the slight, but none the less utterly unjust criticism of a man who has constantly sacrificed his own interests for the benefit of Harvard track interests. RALPH H. HOWE...
...graduate on the maker's advertisement. Now nobody minds whether the Senior wears his sister's insignia or not; it is funny, but harmless. But when the 1916 Class Committee solemnly asserts that this guileless travesty is one of the oldest traditions of Harvard, it is time for a protest in the name of our motto. There was a remote epoch in which academic dress was regularly and correctly worn, but throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century the Harvard Senior wore ordinary clothes on all occasions except Class Day, when he appeared in a dress suit and high...