Word: protestable
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...avalanche of honors is sweeping everything before it. Old favorites among the authors, finding their thrones tottering, protest against the injustice of a system which makes it possible for an unknown at one step to reach popular fame. Young "also-rans form street-corner indignation meetings against the injustice of all plebiscites and all judges. Nevertheless authors, a old and young, unite in striving to out-elbow each other in the shuffle for decorated popularity...
...which the undergraduates were "kicking" about; any particular grievance they were nursing. At the moment there seemed no peculiar circumstance worth mentioning; but were the same question propounded now the answer would be immediately give--and it would be concerned with the divisional examinations. Not that there is a protest against the examinations perse. There isn't; but there is much in the way of adjustment to be made, on the part of the faculty as well as of the students. And the chief trouble, as has been mentioned before in these columns, is that some of the men giving...
...were you, Mr. Editor, I shouldn't mind at all what Mr. Wormser said but should go ahead and send marked copies of the CRIMSON to all my friends. I was delighted to learn from your comment that, after all, the strike has been used as "a protest against unfair exploitation of the laboring man". But that was "originally", was it not? Alas...
...developments of the last century have been more extraordinary than that of strikes. Originally a protest against grossly unfair exploitation of the laboring man, they have passed into the field of politics. The general strike was used to considerable effect in France at the time of the trouble over "Syndicalism" and somewhat later in Russia, also for political purposes. Now there is a strike in South Africa which appears to be leading into yet newer fields...
...last seems to have discovered a method of painless extraction of the bonus. The intricate plan for the issuing of certificates of indebtedness to veterans apparently was conceived at one of those moments, suggested by Lincoln, when "you can fool all of the people"; for the lightness of the protest against the proposal shows that exceedingly slight popular antagonism has been aroused...