Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire to enter my protest against the publication of the picture of William Jennings Bryan in your issue of this week. If it were used apart from the critical articles that you publish from The New York World, no one would know whose picture...
...Nebraska capital city a bill is under discussion providing for the annulment of all marriages which have been deliberately unproductive after two years of opportunity. Report has it, however, that the threat to irresponsible but happy married life is not a serious one, for a storm of protest has risen to block the plan...
...always been very fashionable among students to protest against the food served them, and the communication printed yesterday is but the repetition of what has been going on for years. The Freshmen have always protested; last year they even threw eggs at the walls. An Alumni Bulletin printed, in 1804, the diary of a student who stated that the food was so poor that he feared that his parents would never see his face again...
Undoubtedly the medieval boarding school master deserved the name of "marchands de soupe" but, since those days, improvements have certainly been brought to the food served to students and still they protest. I say some because all do not; I know a few who, like me, have not joined in the forcible comments made upon the meals at the Freshman Halls, and our culinary taste is not perverse. The food there is a good, substantial food, and certainly not of the kind which gives acute indigestion or mangey faces. These unfavorable comments are not based on facts, or the Freshmen...
...gentlemanly tradition of the College is challenged. A long series of abuses of reading room privileges has provoked a very moderate protest, printed elsewhere, from the harassed Librarian. The disclosure of stealing, mutilation, and abuses of purposely lenient rules but repeats common knowledge; the student body is well aware that some users of the library are robbing the rest by mean and annoying practices. The whole gamut of petty crime, from defacement of pictures and pages to temporary removal or real theft, is traversed by a few, too inconsiderate of others and too greedy of their own convenience...