Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, its admirable condensed style, pithy news and incisive comments, at times caustic but never ill-natured, and also my admiration for the patience and toleration it shows to the microcephalic morons who so frequently vent their spleen and exhibit their ignorance in the puerile letters of complaint or protest over negligible trifles, which TIME fearlessly prints from week to week. May your circulation ever increase...
...necessary and important that the English stage from 1800-1870 receive a thorough practical study in protest against the usual manner of disposing of nineteenth century drama, and this Prof. Watson has excellently accomplished in his sequel (actually of earlier composition) and companion volume to Prof. Thaler's "Shakespeare to Sheridan." Prof. Thaler's book is essentially one of information regarding the theatre itself--of facts concerning playwrights, players, managers, playhouses--rather than a consideration of the dramatic literature, which has been adequately covered for his period by Prof. Bernbaum, Prof. Nicoll, and others, in special histories. Prof. Watson...
...City College Student is the paper which was suppressed this winter for a protest against compulsory military training. When forbidden to continue the agitation, the editors printed the paper with a white blank where the editorial is usually run. Professor Cohen is the rather of the student who was most prominent in the military training protest...
Among the smaller preliminary meetings, one of the most active was that of the Federation of Settlements, before which Jane Addams, co-founder (1889) and head of Hull House (Chicago), arose to protest against loose public thinking. The American people "are in a panic," said she. They identify everything connected with "social work" with "Socialism," or more often with Bolshevism. She cited the case of a distinguished member of Congress who "had it on very good authority" that the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. constitution had been written by the late Dictator Lenin in Moscow...
...questionnaire of the Student Federation, in so far as it deals with compulsory chapel, meets a well-defined opinion at Harvard and the specific question requires little comment, except to note protest against compulsory chapel, is far from universal...