Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second of the motifs which run through the Gadfly is a rather vague and undefined protest against the word "unassimilable", as used in the Student Council report. It is held that this interpretation will exclude most of the valuable men in college, the intellectuals because they may fail to make final clubs, the Jews because they may not be athletes, the commutes because they may not add the local color that Brown gives to Harvard. The assumption is made by even Mr. Villard that the "assimilable" man is nothing but the "clubbable" man. That this betrays almost complete failure...
...interim, rising prices, incidental disputes, and jangled nerves increase the difficulties of a solution. The strike is essentially a human protest against the ruthlessness of economic law. The English coal industry is suffering from that anathema of Thomas Carlyle, "overproduction". More capital is invested, more men are employed in coal mining than can possibly be supported on its profits. And in this age of specialization, the transfer of either capital or labor to another occupation requires time and initiative precluding the possibility of a quick readjustment Quite the brightest spot in the whole situation is the unobtrusive announcement that...
...public's virtual control" of the game is sinister and perniclous not the game itself. We would protest against the American professors' plan as sincerely as we do against the Harvard program. Both go to the vitals of football to save the sport-crazy public from losing its sense of balance. The only people to worry about in this regard are the men who are in the minority: the players themselves. These can be saved their equilibrium if the college don't deity the Red Granges and if they keep down the hours of practice which deter men from their...
...which he was a member, as also two generals of the state militia, his Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor (the strikers are not affiliated with the Federation of Labor). Later the two military men were removed on the strikers' protest...
...chief scribe, Arthur Brisbane, to circularize all the A. P. members and ask them if they were going to permit their votes to be thus "forced" by the directors; if, having "scotched" this reptilian idea in 1924, they were going to sit by and permit "the right of protest" to be overridden in 1926; if they were going to permit Publisher Gannett to be "given a franchise for nothing that many other members have spent fortunes to obtain?" Scribe Brisbane, furthermore, denied that there had been any complaints against Publisher Hearst's conduct as an A. P. member at Rochester...