Word: protests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo, a justice of the peace, appropriately disguised as a fool, comes to the fair on the scent for "enormities" which...
Against one "Black Hole of Calcutta" we wish especially to protest--the chemistry lecture room in Boylston Hall. Lack of proper ventilation, combined with the action of chemicals, makes the atmosphere unendurable long before the hour has elapsed. The course that meets here is necessarily large, for it is required for further study in several departments. It is an initiation to the Medical School that should render its sufferers absolutely impervious to disease. Possibly with more stimulating and less drugging of the senses, Chemistry 1 would not distribute each year its high proportion of wretched marks...
...another column this morning we publish the protest of a Senior against the so-called two-sport rule, which, it is claimed, seriously handicapped the swimming team in its recent meet with Yale. Without the services of an experienced swimmer, who had played football during the fall and wished to take part in the more important contests of the spring, the team was undoubtedly at a considerable disadvantage. We are inclined to doubt the extent of injury that the rule has done, but here certainly is a specific instance of its harmful possibilities. Our contributor is right in stating that...
...compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting his life work, that the pettion has been started. If enough mon can be induced to sing, it will be forwarded to President Roosevelt, as a formal protest from Harvard against a tyrany, the like of which has never furnished before under the very oyes of modern civilization...
Post mortem discussions of athletic events are never pleasant, especially when a Harvard team has been defeated; but when the defeat is due to a flagrant violation of the first principles of coaching, it cannot pass without a word of protest...