Word: protested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romer describes the course of the fraternity's relations with its national organization. Though the fraternity charter placed no restrictions on how an individual chapter was to select its members, the entire American fraternity structure rose to protest the Amherst chapter's action. Despite the bitterness of many other fraternities, despite the national Phi Kappa Psi's attempts to hush up the proceedings, the Amherst group persistently defended their right to choose a new member in their own manner...
Fortnight ago he formally notified Queen Juliana that he would go on a hunger strike against the government's "wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
Next week the concierges of Paris will hold a mass meeting in protest against the wholesale dismissals, without, of course, giving up what the government had given them. Most Parisians will be staunchly on the side of La Pipelette. No matter how the world's affairs turn out, La Pipelette should be kept there, at her glass door, seeing everything...
Most of the numbers on the program rocked Memorial Church on its heels, the old building sending back echoes of protest. Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," a sultry Basque setting, was particularly strong in diction and attack, something for which the Club is famous. Singing out-doors is a real test of such polish: Tuesday's audience heard every word. The concert ended with four choruses from "Patience," and afterwards members of the University joined the Glee Club on the steps to sing football songs. Merriment prevailed, and the spring counterpart of the football rallies had once more...
Fifteen months of protest, reports, and student investigations bear fruit for Harvard geography today when a special committee from the faculty meets with Provost Buck to "study the place of geography at Harvard in all its aspects...