Word: protestable
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...students reached their decision to strike through motives of purest patriotism. They feared--whether rightly or not makes no difference that the Pekin Government was disposed to betray the national interests of China unless all its dealings with Japan were carried on in the full light of day. The protest was a genuine one. There was but one way at hand to express their feelings so that no one could mistake them. And so the students in some 14 provinces "struck," and deserted the academic halls to bring the Pekin Government to its senses...
...railroad and I will blow up the city," he said to a newspaper correspondent, and added modestly, "I have no right to give way. For Flume counts upon me, for Italy counts upon me, for all the oppressed nations count upon me. I am a symbol of protest against the iniquity of the treaty of Versailles." As for the Allies taking Flume, he goes on to say, "They will do nothing. They will say nothing. Here at Flume we are stronger than the Allies...
...allow women pupils, but we feel sure that the College will never be subject to the feminizing sway. That timid idea, so tentatively proposed by the Governing Board will not be adopted at Harvard. The stern spirits of every Puritan from Miles Standish to Cotton Mather arise in solemn protest. We see the inventor of the original "New England conscience" deliver his fateful warning.--Never. The drear halls of Sever shall not be made frivolous. No shall they invade the awful precincts of "Mem". For this is your God: Education. And Education is austere. Elseit were not Education. Amen...
...suggest that every ex-service man in the University write to his Congressman and forcefully protest against this political outrage, suggesting at the same time that those who can't work be given a fighting chance to earn a living at the country's expense. A. GARDNER 1L W. S. CARLISLE 1L HOWARD BOOKER...
...President Lowell has said, to turn out men who by "their adaptability and resourcefulness," can adjust themselves to whatever conditions the future may bring forth: to prepare natural leaders not technical experts. Linked with the recognition of the value of general education should be the university editors' sane protest against those who would deny to Harvard teachers that freedom to form and express their own opinions which has been one of the more cherished rights of English and American tradition. Advancement of society in the past has been wrought by its critics not by its admirers. It is essential, particularly...