Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the I. C. A. A. A. A. committee last night it was decided that Schick, who had been protested by Yale, and Preston of Yale, protested by Harvard, should be allowed to compete under protest, their cases to be decided on later. Scheuber has been withdrawn, as he admits having competed in a meet, contrary to the rules of the Association; stating, however, that he was ignorant of the rules...
...plan the ultimate control would be in the hands of five men, who are older and more experienced than almost any other members of the Society. The opponents of the plan claim that 2500 students, with no business experience, can run the business well, and yet they protest against allowing five men to run it, each one of whom is more competent and experienced than any of the students. ROGER ERNST
...famous Black Watch, Cronje was surrounded by Lord Roberts's troops, and after ten days surrendered. The speaker closed with a strong appeal against the concentration camps in which the Boer women and children are dying of hunger and sickness. He asked the audience, whatever their sentiments were, to protest against this outrage and help save the women and children...
...universal interest. The situation as revealed in successive official British reports is simply appalling, and ought to be presented to this country so as to command wider attention than has yet been given to it. The schools of Germany and France have already become associated in a movement of protest and sympathy, and most of the continental universities have expressed themselves in great public meeting. Those who care to inform themselves as to the attitude of thoughtful Europeans should read Edmond Rostand's stirring poem, "Le sou des Boers...
...widespread protest in this country at the present moment against the practices of the British government might thus materially assist the efforts of fair-minded Englishmen like Lehman, just as two years ago the world wide protest against the French government helped Zola and Picquart. Can not Harvard men then give some more deliberate and formal expression to those opinions which twice within the past fortnight have so strikingly revealed themselves...