Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last article of that character contained in the Magenta. Its weak points are many, and they would at once be revealed by a careful analysis both of its course of thought and of its general style. While purporting to be a defence of Harvard students, it is manifestly a protest against certain religious opinions, and a slur cast, in one case upon the expressions, in the other upon the doctrinal views, of two eminent Christian men. The daily papers, Messrs. Editors, have quite sufficiently misrepresented the doctrinal views of the recent candidate for the bishopric of Massachusetts, and we need...
...protest against Cambridge being placarded with notices which end like the following: "Ladies are particularly invited to attend as they will be offered for sale at exceedingly low prices...
...them neither meanness nor avarice nor downright dishonesty, only an effervescence of deviltry. But when these customs, skill in which is esteemed among us, as among the Spartans, are made the means of cool speculation, the honor of the whole College is involved, and should be vindicated by the protest of every student...
...class to which this hero belongs, curiously enough, has no common name. I protest against this deficiency, and call upon the College to supply it. Must one be compelled to say, "Have you seen the man who makes my fire, blacks my boots, brings up the water, steals the coal, upsets the inkbottle, and fuddles himself before 12 M.?" No; it is too much. Let some distinctive name be chosen at once, and, whatever be its origin, be it Greek, Latin, French, German, Anglo-Saxon, or a hybrid, let it, Oh, in the name of justice, let it be opprobrious...
Deeply as Doc. had hoped, by his protest...