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...little protest: Why do all the American news-publications make such a fuss over the Prince of Wales? He gets almost as much handclapping in the U. S. as the President. What has he ever done to merit such applause?: True, he may be a very intelligent, magnetic and democratic young man, and a good sport. The same is true of thousands of young Americans and young men of all other civilized nations, but they have to accomplish something before they are lionized in the press and on the screen. What has the Prince done? Is it possible that...
...Meiklejohn was forced to resign from the presidency for Amherst College because of opposition to his liberal curriculum reforms. His popularity among the students was attested by the fact that 13 seniors refused their diplomas as a protest agaist his resignation...
Thus far M. Tchitcherin appeared to have entered merely a "normal protest" against the sort of act which irresponsible Chinese soldiers are in the habit of committing now and then. He despatched another telegram, however, to Tuan Chi-jui, the impotent Chief Executive of the Chinese Republic, at Peking. M. Tchitcherin demanded that the Tuan Government force Super-Tuchun Chang to heed the demands made upon him or authorize the U. S. S. R. "to use its own efforts" in coercing Chang...
Late and unsubstantiated despatches from Moscow reported that Chang's troops had seized "numerous additional Soviet workers and officials at Harbin." Allegedly Chang imposed a complete censorship upon the local Soviet newspapers, which appeared "with big blank white pages" in protest...
...with iambs, and dactyls thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this page is the excellent drawing by Mr. Codfish Cabot showing Lampy in the act of launching a ship emblematic of the fifty years of his jovial existence...