Word: protest
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...have something to find fault with that it is a pleasant change when there is anything to praise. A short time since the Professor of Rhetoric announced his intention of lowering the marks given at the anticipatory examination in this subject. At that time we felt obliged to protest against this reduction as unjust, and so now we are happy to say that the professor has reconsidered his intention; and not only this, but has announced that it is in consequence of what was said in the College papers. We are glad to see that one of our instructors...
...that it is strange that the Faculty should allow it. If a Professor is to have the power of reducing marks six months after they have been announced, and when it is too late for the sufferers to take another examination, it seems to me time for a strong protest. I am not aware that such injustice has ever been done before...
...allow others privileges they may choose to deny themselves. At twelve o' clock P. M., with the prospect of four hours' steady work before me, and with the (at another time) joyful sound of revelry in the room below me, I waive all respect of persons, and protest against the fiends of the north entry of Matthews, who prevent my neighbors and myself from doing necessary work. I had supposed, it seems fallaciously, that we were all bound by certain feelings of consideration for each other, and that the man who will want quiet to-morrow would feel...
...wish to go to England under no false pretences. We do not claim to be the champion four of American colleges. No such thing exists, and the attempts of our contemporaries to manufacture the title are as absurd as their protest against our supposed assumption of it." - Acta Columbiana...
...Monday last both the petition and the protest were presented to the Faculty, who, after considerable discussion, laid both upon the table. In all probability it will be impossible to organize any Class Day celebration whatever, and at all events a discontented faction has succeeded in stirring up anew all the ill-feeling that has been considered by unprejudiced observers to be singularly discreditable to the class...