Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another class, now departed this academic life, will also recall the local price for window panes. The seniors tested thoroughly the strength of the Quadrangle windows and found them vulnerable. As a result the University was presented with a just protest from the donors. The seniors paid the bill...
Considered externally, China has various debts to pay off. Only recently she failed to meet a small obligation in this country. A great protest followed, although nothing is said when other governments cannot meet interest payments which run up into the hundreds of millions. If China cannot pay her outstanding debts, it means more debts. More debts bring with them more large concessions. And it is just such things as these that inevitably bring in their train serious international complications and disputes. JOHN O. CRANE ocC December...
...mass meeting at the Union last Wednesday night brought out clearly an attitude which I have heard hinted at before and against which I strongly protest. With the single exception of Captain Kane, each successive speaker expressed his gratification to see the "enthusiastic support of the undergraduates" and the "splendid spirit of the Harvard undergraduate body". This distinction is as unnecessary as it is unfortunate. These remarks were made in such a manner that one could not help feeling strongly the implication that the graduate students are disloyal, (and made me personally feel apart from the demonstration which I wished...
...system and the taking of notes. Some feel that Harvard men are given the preference. Then there is the old cry: "Now, at Columbia,--or the University of Chicago,--or Siwash College",--or where not. And I have always found that the loudest "laudatores collogli acti" and those who protest against Harvard injustice are Scholarship-holders. A fitting subject for a fable. F. M. CAREY '20, 3G. November...
...implying rather than declaring plainly an idea has intruded even into the Pateresque editorial entitled "Many Seasons". The reviewer, as one who has suffered much from the obligation of reading authors who have reached a perilous stage in this habit, may be allowed to register here his mild protest, and to express the hope that writers at Harvard, if only for the sake of a change, may turn their attention to imitating the clarity of the Victorian age or even of the eighteenth century...