Word: protestable
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...Glee Club, and this in spite of the rather long program so characteristic of its concerts. It is difficult to determine whether this can be classed as a fault or not; it is perhaps more a tribute to the organization's performance that the audience does not protest at the lengthy presentation. Certainly the concert did not reflect the least abatement in the ambitious aims of the Glee Club and proved that the association is as versatile and accomplished as unanimous opinion maintains...
...Repent before the General Court of Massachusetts. The renewed attempt to abolish the extra hour of daylight, which is now provided for by a state law, is backed by a systematic canvass of the rural districts of the state for signatures to a petition, in accord with the united protest of farmers throughout the country against daylight saving; their opposition being based on a claim that it causes difficulties in labor conditions...
Last year the people of Massachusetts found the state act very satisfactory. The great mass of the population concentrated in the cities appreciated the value of the extra hour of daylight after business hours. The farmers, particularly those dealing in milk, were the only ones to protest, in spite of the fact that the confusion due to the difference between railroad time and daylight time was born almost entirely by the city-dwellers...
...popular idea that the sole purpose of music is to arouse pleasant sensations through the auditory nerves, or to excite the risibilities by combination of silly words and puerile tunes. Against such an amateurish conception of a great and noble art, I, as a professional musician, emphatically protest, and I maintain that the efforts of a Harvard organization to place before the undergraduates a standard in the science of music, commensurate with the standards in other sciences, are worthy of the highest praise, and of the warmest support...
...refusing the $1,250,000 appropriation asked for the continuance of our aerial mail service, Congress has once more displayed characteriatle narrow mindedness. On the surface indication that the returns do not justify the experiment, present schedules are abandoned, further development is forbidden. Protest against such summary action has been duly forthcoming from those best informed aeronautically in the United States; President Wilson is in opposition to the move...