Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to protest first against a Harvard publication descending to such a low level of deceney as to attack a Harvard instructor in so personal and disrespectful a way. Vile slander such as the Lampoon has indulged in had better not appear in print, both for the sake of Harvard's self-respect and reputation...
...which lay behind the activity of the Central Powers in precipitating the world war. We learn, for example, that Austria had been granted the right by Germany and Russia to annex Bosnia and Herzogovina as early as 1881, and this shows us why Russia was obliged to withdraw her protest against the seizure o these territories in 1908 We see how Germany and Austria were able to convince each other that a general European War in 1914 could not but be an advantage to both...
...member of the American Legion and (I believe) a good American citizen, I wish respectfully to protest against opening the columns of the University daily to the type of Sophomoric and indecent (I use the word advisedly) communications as have recently been printed over the names of Messrs. Wyman and Lippitt. It seems too bad to lower the dignity of the paper by marring its columns with such outbursts of childish petulance, no matter in how good a cause, and reminds one rather forcibly of the verbose, political fury for which certain small western journals were once notorious...
...theologically a liberal and have no sympathy with the emotional piety that often masquerades as religion; but if any idealistic conception of God must be classed as "narrow" and "sectarian," and if any religious purpose must be suavely generalized; a priori, as impractical, I beg leave to register a protest. That sort of stuff is as narrow and dogmatic on the liberal side as the narrowest dogmatisms of the seventeenth century--and much shallower; and what is vastly more important, it does not represent the position of hundreds, perhaps of thousands, of men in this University. R. P. CURRIER...