Word: protested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Congress hell-bent to carve up the national budget, Federal Arts projects have come in for more than their share of epithets. "Useless," "extravagant," and myriads of other Republican, battle cries are heard. 210 Harvard Faculty members have risen in protest against this attack, vehemently defending Federal Arts on the ground that "a democratic government can assure its citizens a freedom of life, of enterprise, and of access to the arts of civilization such as no other government can or will assure them." They protest against the stifling of this "freedom of access" by distorted Congressional "economy...
...recent protest and petition by eleven members of the Freshman class, resulting from the recent House assignments, are beneficial because they call attention to the need of a better system of House admissions; they are, however, unhealthy in that this is a campaign not prompted by any altruistic desire to better conditions in general, but an expression of resentment on the part of a small group who feel that several of their personal acquaintance have been unjustly excluded...
...begin by granting that an injustice was perhaps done in at least one of the cases which the eleven protesting members cited. This, however, does not alter the fact that a protest requesting "strict observance of the merit system; in other words, on the basis of outside activities" does not contribute one constructive idea towards the solution of the problem. It is merely the expression of an admission standard already so often expressed it has become hackneyed...
Committee Rejects Protest...
...protest, raised by a group who claimed that the dance on Friday afternoon before the Jubilee would make for too many continuous hours of dancing in one day, was finally settled in favor of the Friday proposal. The P.B.B. Committee in charge of the tea dance claimed that a Freshman baseball game with Yale besides other minor complications interfered with the original Saturday schedule...