Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College a rather minor rule that requires instrutors in full courses to test the work of the first half year on the final examination. It is a minor rule because it is an orphan. No one seems to enforce it or obey it. Hence there can be no protest against the educational injustice it might inflict by demanding detailed knowledge best forgotten. In its present status, the rule evokes comment only on the mild absurdity of its existence...
However, Miss Repplier reminds the public that but fifty-seven years have passed since James Russell Lowell wrote "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners"; While much less time has elapsed since William James felt constrained to protest that "in the last analysis, the Yankee also is a creature of God." Styles may shift but, it is Miss Repplier's uncontentious contention, culture itself is not transplanted within half a century. Even if it be allowed that seeds of artistry have thriven somewhat in the western world, at least salt has not been strewn on the soil of Europe...
This poll like all others is after all a mere compilation of figures. And there are still those who will always protest that figures lie. But surely they, at least in this case, graph emphatically the persistent flow of distaste among sane and thinking people which is now moving about the halls of legislation and the courts of justice...
...trial was held. The judge, who had been brought in from the Orange Free State and was not even a citizen of the republic, sentenced the four leaders to be hanged. There was an uproar of protest even from the Boers. Next morning President Kruger commuted the sentence, but meantime a gallows had been erected. For several weeks the prisoners lay in jail, this time in galvanized iron shacks, 22 men in a shed 30 ft. by 10 ft. One man lost his mind, cut his throat...
...Clergy Roused. Since avowed national trafficking in even "socalled vice" moved the English Nonconformist Church Council to issue a protest, publicly stigmatizing Mr. Churchill for "conveying the impression to young people that the state not only tolerates but sanctions betting...