Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arguments over the College's language requirement have a life-cycle much like a volcano's. Elementary language courses annually rate least popular in the Confidential Guide, a majority of the students damning them as ill-taught, dull and unnecessary. The resentment erupts, forms into a formal protest, spills over into Faculty Committee and the Student Council meetings, and finally becomes another layer on the already ample pile of slag burying the problem. This process takes about four years each round...
Finally Davison quelled some alumni protest by stating that the term sentimental mush "was merely a press fabrication...
...rippling-muscled Christ who resembles Charles Atlas with a halo, then drops them abruptly into the Lake of Fire for a sample scalding. His language is a strange, original blend of farm-boy idiom, Shakespeare, the New Testament and the newest slang. Sample Grahamism, aimed at those who protest that they were raised in good Christian homes, therefore don't need to be "converted": "Just because you were born in a garage, does that make you an automobile...
...protest the public showing of the "Birth of a Nation" in commercial theatres. However, we feel that its showing to an audience of enlightened, adult, sincere students of motion picture history will result in appreciation of the film as art, without any resulting injustice to anyone...
...true that we have in the past protested the public showing of this film. However, for the record, I wish to state that the NAACP had no knowledge that the "Birth of a Nation" was scheduled to be shown at Harvard October 31, 1952, and no protest was made by the association at this time...