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...game was a play-off of the second game of the series which was called off by Captain Frothingham on the protest of Captain Wadsworth on the ground that the former game was not fairly played. The protest was made under three heads; 1st on the ground that a '94 base-runner interfered with the freshman short-stop; second that the sophomores intentionally delayed the game; third, the '94 short stop interfered with a base-runner trying for home base on a hit to right field...
...Society of Authors held a meeting in London, Eng., last Tuesday to consider the question of erecting a monument to the memory of James Russell Lowell. Mr. Leslie Stevens, the originator of the plan, occupied the chair. The meeting was in the nature of a protest against the rudely expressed objections to placing more tributes to foreigners in Westminster Abbey. Among those present were Sir Frederick Pellock and Messrs. Stevens, Linton, Besant, Gosse, Sidney, Lee, Maccoll and Martineau...
...seems almost childish after all that has been said about the water in the gymnasium, to add another protest against the present unpardonable state of things. It seems all the more needless to say anything since the grievance is one not difficult to remedy, but one which a very little attention could set right. For some time past there has been a great deal of irregularity in the supply of hot water in the gymnasium. Some evenings it will be shut off altogether, before most of the squads have finished training; at other times the supply of hot water will...
...wish to protest against a practice which, during these base few days before the vacation seems to have a good many supporters, - I refer to the dodge of an absentee's getting some other man to represent him at lectures. The usual way seems to be that a man who wishes to go home before the vacation begins, asks some friend to sit in his seat at his lectures for him, so that he may not be marked absent. He then goes off, sometimes a week early, secure in the knowledge that his cuts cannot be detected...
...vogue at Rome. By this system the Pope, by a decree could do anything he wished, practically. He referred to ancient rules for his authority, and if they did not exist he could easily make them, to suit his purpose. The leaders of the Church began to protest against such a tyrannical system. They formed the Concilia System to oppose the Decretal...