Word: protest
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...account of the recent trouble between the Cornell freshmen and sophomores is said to have been purely fictions. The sophomore class has called an indignation meeting to protest...
...What has called them forth? They seem to me utterly unreasonable. The students, of course, are placed in a position at once embarrassing and oppressive. But the faculty, I think, occupies the worst position. This action is at the least injudicious. I hope the students will make a decided protest...
...eighth resolution seems' necessary if the other resolutions are to be carried out; but such are the objections to the others as a whole that we consider it our duty to express our emphatic protest against their adoption by the Harvard faculty as ill-timed, inexpedient and unjust...
...juniors at Brown University have this year repeated the protest made a year ago against appointing speakers to the junior exhibition on their general rank, rather than upon their oratorical and rhetorical standing, and refuse to hold an exhibition if the old system is adhered...
...sorry to learn that in the spring the Holmes' house, in spite of all its associations, is to be removed or torn down. We are not rich enough in America in historical monuments and memories to let so noteworthy a building go without a protest. Here was the headquarters of General Artemus Ward, during the first days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with...