Word: protestable
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Will the Grand Army, unforgetting after 60 years, protest? As far as Stone Mountain is concerned, their protest is almost certain to be too late. The half dollars, coined by authorization of Congress, have already been distributed, 2,300,000 of them. On July 3 they will be given out to the public by the distributing agencies...
...rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse to protest against the tendency on the part of a small group of loyal alumni to use the wealth as the determining factor in shaping the course of one of the Big Three of American education. The Baker acquisition was consummated with a furtiveness, haste and poor breeding which should find no place...
Meantime, the Pravda, Moscow journal, grew livid over the absence of any protest from the world bourgeoisie...
...started a vigorous campaign against the injustice. In the University of Minnesota the students have formed an Anti-Compulsory Military Drill League which is engaged in spreading its sensible propaganda broadcast through the still-shackled colleges of the country. Undergraduate opinion, seldom so unanimous, is gathering momentously and its protest voices itself continually by the increasing number of student demonstrations. Surely the time has come when American universities, no longer training camps for an immediate war, can more nearly resemble seats of learning...
...paraders-some 400 strong-students of Howard University (for Negroes). After their deliberations in the chapel, they had voted to discontinue their attendance at classes until their President, Dr. James Stanley Durkee, should give them some satisfaction for representations they had made to him in protest against compulsory physical and military drills† They demanded reinstatement of anti-militarists dismissed by Dr. Durkee, swore to "cut" their classes a beyond the allowable number of 20 as was necessary to "adjust their rights...