Word: protested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...protest in regard to the No Names has not been allowed...
...hope that if any graduate reads this communication he will see fit to make an active protest against this overcrowding. It means the disfigurement of our row of old buildings...
...action of the Overseers in voting to extend the privilege of voting for Overseers to all graduates of five year's standing from any professional school has drawn a protest from the alumni of the college. A petition that a definite settlement of the matter be postponed at least a year has been prepared and circulated among prominent alumni in Boston. In all there are 150 signers. The petition was presented to the Overseers last week and will be considered at a special meeting this morning...
Either has a moral right, however, to protest if the other forgets the amenities which are popularly ascribed to their long and traditional intercourse. Harvard's football players have a right not to wear the "H" if they consider their skill of too low a standard. They have no right, however, to remove the "H" when it implies an ungenerous criticism of an honored rival. But every Yale man can afford to pass that by unnoticed, since they readily understand the keen disappointment of your failure...
...wish therefore to protest against what may be called blind enthusiasm. Harvard has a team well up to, if not above, the standard of the average Harvard team. We believe that it will go into the game resolved to rise to the occasion and do a little better than its best. Its superiority to Yale, however, remains to be shown next Saturday and to assume it beforehand is the height of absurdity...