Word: protestable
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...professors and plot the curves of deans; he could embroider academic records in beautiful sampler designs, and prune, if need be, catalogues and committee reports into the most lovely shapes--hearts, crosses, pyramids, love-knots. Because he could do this he was made to do it, though he regularly protested. But after years of protest and endurance he has--if we may be pardoned a not wholly academic figure--kicked up his heels and run away. The born administrators, he seems to realize, are the fellows to do the administering; he proposes to go back to his studies. How simple...
...climax is reached in the account of an officer in the British Royal Flying Corps, who was figured as an Egyptian because he was born in Egypt while his English parents were staying there. He had left Egypt at the age of five, never to see it again. His protest sums up the whole situation: "If I had been born in a stable," he asked, "would I be a horse...
Another class, now departed this academic life, will also recall the local price for window panes. The seniors tested thoroughly the strength of the Quadrangle windows and found them vulnerable. As a result the University was presented with a just protest from the donors. The seniors paid the bill...
Considered externally, China has various debts to pay off. Only recently she failed to meet a small obligation in this country. A great protest followed, although nothing is said when other governments cannot meet interest payments which run up into the hundreds of millions. If China cannot pay her outstanding debts, it means more debts. More debts bring with them more large concessions. And it is just such things as these that inevitably bring in their train serious international complications and disputes. JOHN O. CRANE ocC December...
...mass meeting at the Union last Wednesday night brought out clearly an attitude which I have heard hinted at before and against which I strongly protest. With the single exception of Captain Kane, each successive speaker expressed his gratification to see the "enthusiastic support of the undergraduates" and the "splendid spirit of the Harvard undergraduate body". This distinction is as unnecessary as it is unfortunate. These remarks were made in such a manner that one could not help feeling strongly the implication that the graduate students are disloyal, (and made me personally feel apart from the demonstration which I wished...