Word: protested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to make indignant protest against the method pursued by a certain popular lecturer of Harvard in showing his displeasure at the unfortunate presence of those who are not students in his audiences. It would be a very simple draft upon his sense of courtesy to ask them politely to withdraw, but to drive them out by acts and words far from gentlemanly is a strange proceeding in Harvard halls. Let him remember that it was once said of Emerson, "He stood up, just as if he thought other people were as good...
...serve as a committee representative of the athletic interests, which committee should draw up a statement of the reasons why the Faculty vote, if allowed to prevail, would do harm to the University and have this statement signed by the influential graduates and undergraduates who should sympathies with the protest. The statement could then be presented to the Corporation and Overseers and might have a good deal of weight. If it didn't what could...
...team and college should be binding even when the claims of common sense and morality above referred to, might be heedlessly set aside. In past years Harvard teams have been known to suffer by the loss of men through probation. Before cause has been given this year we protest against the unfairness of such men, so that protest may not seem complaint against a particular individual...
...wish to protest against such crybaby language from a Harvard graduate. The statement is not true, and even if it were, whining about it would only make people doubt its truth. Such statements, we venture to say, misrepresent the sentiment of the University, and the publication of them will give the University a very unenviable and undeserved reputation...
...venture to protest against what seems to me an injustice done to the Harvard correspondent of the Boston Advertiser by Professor de Sumichrast's communication of yesterday and by the editorial in the CRIMSON. However unfortunate in its effect the Advertiser report may have been, I do not see how it could convey to an unprejudiced reader any impression of malicious or dishonorable intent on the part of the reporter. As a matter of simple justice to the gentleman who has been so attacked, I wish to quote the article in question; for I think that a calm and unprejudiced...