Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only say to the Editors of TIME that it is self evident to any person of refinement or culture that any young man should behave himself, and that if a young man highly placed misbehaves himself some public protest should accompany the public notoriety which his indiscretions have received due to his prominence. That is why I protested, and I know that many of your readers approved my protest deep in their hearts...
...Protest against "overemphasis", upon football, ancient and often as unreasonable as the malady itself, has taken a new turn which may well prove decisive. For now it is the undergraduate who leads our way--the Harvard Crimson and the Yale News concurring. What should be a sport has become an arduous grind, endured by most of the players only because college loyalty demands the sacrifice as no less a luminary of the gridiron than George Owen declared of late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged...
...lose no word of protest ever came from the players themselves. If defeat crowned their efforts in place of victory, it was their fault and the fault of Harvard. They knew better than the outside world the man for whom they were staking Harvard's football reputation. Such confidence is the greatest tribute that a coach can receive. It is of the stuff which raises lost hopes and sends a team against Yale which will not be beaten...
...recalled that Shah Ahmad has been leading a notoriously languid and luxurious existence in Europe for the past two years. For him to evince sufficient interest in Persian affairs even to "vehemently protest" is something of an event...
...mind noted that early in the week the Shah seemed indifferent toward events in Persia. It was only after Prince Samad Khan Momtaz, the Persian Minister to France, had anxiously sought him at the Hotel Majestic, that he took what is for him an unprecedentedly firm stand. His "protest" is not expected to count for much against the "bayonets" of Reza Khan. The British Government has already given "provisional recognition" to the new "provisional government" of Persia. The Russian Government, which has been freely rumored to be behind Reza Khan, recognized the new regime by telegraph almost before...