Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, in a directive to all principals, the School Board of Superintendents reasserted the city's mass-promotion policy. Immediately, all 144 faculty members of the Olney High School rose up in protest. "The directive," they declared, "implies that every pupil is to be advanced from grade to grade, regardless of attendance, behavior, or ability. The chief criterion is to be chronological age. Pupils having been exposed to this 'something-for-nothing' policy . . . will be unprepared to meet real life. . . ." Emboldened, 14 of the city's 16 high schools joined the battle. Individual teachers began...
...Shimer & bride hurried home to protest. He had strong support: 22 of the 28 professors at the summer session signed a petition backing him. The petition referred to his previous career as national secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the American Scholar, as dean of the faculty at Bucknell and as a Navy lieutenant during the war. Said greying Professor T. D. Phillips of Marietta's physics department: "Marietta College needs some new trustees...
...from liking the movie, the Shanghai barbers roared their indignation. Telegrams of protest from barbers in Hangchow and Hankow flooded in. Some 500 barbers stormed the Shanghai theater, pulled the signs down, smeared the advertisements with paint. "They did this," said the dignified newspaper Ta Kung Pao, "to show their disapproval...
Workmen are now shoring up the 54-year-old building which was discovered to be badly sagging several weeks ago. Although most of the plaster dust which caused the student protest has been removed in an intensive cleanup campaign, a thin layer still covers the corridors...
Joining Page in the protest were Richard Bobear '50, James L. Elam '50, James W. Kuhn '50, and Frank E. Fite, Jr. '50, who asked for new rooms while the work was in progress...