Word: protestable
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With the score tied, Harvard had an excellent opportunity to score. A decision by Eubanks that was patently and palpably wrong, brought the rally to a finish. The Harvard players didn't budge from their bench. Captain Emmons went out on the field and made his protest in a perfectly orderly manner. When he was overruled he went back to the bench and the Harvard team fought on. The game wasn't delayed more than ten seconds...
...present strike involving something like eighty percent of the book and job printing of the city of Boston, and affecting Cambridge establishments as well marks another protest on the part of organized labor against the reduction of prices. The unions resent what one official has termed an attempt at "arbitrarily taking money out of the workers' envelops and giving it to the printing-consuming public." It is clear that this strike is merely an instance of the time-honored demand for less work and more wages; but it holds peculiar significance for the college...
...does not appear as the sensation-monger. His narrative furnishes largely a corroboration of much that is already known. It reveals an honest, well-intentioned statesman subordinating his matured personal opinion to a dubious loyalty to his country's interests, and in the end signing a treaty without public protest or reservation, which he was convinced to be iniquitous, in order to obtain--peace at any price...
...University may become life members on payment of $50; students, on payment of $75. The Union may elect not more than four honorary members, providing each candidate for honorary membership has received the approval of the Governing Board and the Undergraduate Committee, and providing no resident members protest his election...
Provision is made for amending the Constitution, which may be accomplished by a majority vote of the Governing Board and Undergraduate Committee, subject to protest of twenty-five or more resident members...