Word: protested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...association now numbers 1120 and has a waiting list of several hundred, which evidently presents fluctuations in membership on account of changes in the quality of board furnished. There is, therefore, no longer any check against poor board. This is exactly the point of the present protest...
...late for us to save this cherished ceremony, but we owe it to ourselves as Harvard men; we owe it to the graduates who have left the custom in our keeping, and we owe it to those who are to come after us, manfully and vigorously to protest against the threatened action of the Corporation...
...ordinary protest or petition will be of the slightest weight. I believe there is but one thing for the Senior Class to do, and that is to draw up a protest stating that if the Corporation abolishes the scrimmage around the Tree, the Class Day Committee will resign, and that there will be no Class Day whatever for the class of Ninety-seven. In this way alone the Seniors may show that they are in earnest, that the custom which is so lightly disposed of by the Corporation is of vital importance to them. It will arouse the graduates...
...second objection, that the football clothes are offensive has still less weit. Judge Holmes, in speaking of the Harvard men who fought for their country said that "the greatest qualities after all are those of the man, not those of the gentleman." Backed by this eminent authority I protest with all the emphasis in the power of one who clings fondly to the few remaining occasions in Harvard life which call for a display of sentiment, that the Tree scrimmage should no be abolished for such a purely fastidious reason. If the smell of perspiration has been "nauseating...
...possibility that Columbia is to have no crew this year has caused great excitement in the college. Tomorrow there will be a mass meeting of undergraduates to protest against the decision and to find some way out of the financial difficulties into which the management of the crew has fallen. Mean while the candidates will continue their regular work...