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...delegation of women from several Boston societies visited the office of A. L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, yesterday afternoon to protest against what they believed to be unwarranted action on the part of University officials in discharging the scrubwomen of Widener Library...
...official comment upon the story circulated in the Boston papers that twenty cleaning women had been discharged from Widener Library in response to an ultimatum issued by the State Minimum Wage Board. Aside from tacitly confirming these reports, the officials involved made no reply to the storm of protest already aroused over the fact that the University was apparently unwilling to raise the wages of these workers two and one half cents an hour...
...common with many others who feel that Princeton and her traditions are quite good enough for the average American citizen, and who resent the patronizing airs which these hybrid academics give themselves. I desire to protest against the absurd reverence which seems to be accorded to a man who has spent two or three years mooning among the dons and returns graciously to accept the offer of an instructorship at his alma mater for the purpose of impressing her loutish sons with his own esotericism and converting them from their boorishness...
President Lowell's suggestion, if serious effort should be made to apply it at Harvard or any other university, would call forth, we feel sure, overwhelming expressions of protest from the vested interests of the firmly entrenched athletic machines which dominate so largely the life of American colleges. Whether such protests would have reason on their side remains open to doubt. That they would have the might power of conservatism on their side is certain...
Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...