Word: protestable
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...wish to call your attention to your outrageous action of printing the Arabian characters in Friday's article about the Pi Eta show. As a student of Arabic I know what I am talking about when I protest against the expression of what you would scarcely consider printing in English, and which moreover, takes to itself an added denotation in the language of its origin. JEROME PRES...
...want to protest first against a Harvard publication descending to such a low level of deceney as to attack a Harvard instructor in so personal and disrespectful a way. Vile slander such as the Lampoon has indulged in had better not appear in print, both for the sake of Harvard's self-respect and reputation...
...wish also to protest against the point of view the Lampoon expressed toward a man of so-called radical trend especially at this time when the tendency is, in attempting to crush all activities which lead to violence, to destroy that freedom of thought and discussion through which progress is achieved under our form of government. We doubt whether this unsportsmanlike outbreak against Mr. Laski has the backing of the student body. And even if it has, that would hardly bring it within the bounds of decency. In sport, whatever opinion a person may have of Mr. Laski, all must...
...which lay behind the activity of the Central Powers in precipitating the world war. We learn, for example, that Austria had been granted the right by Germany and Russia to annex Bosnia and Herzogovina as early as 1881, and this shows us why Russia was obliged to withdraw her protest against the seizure o these territories in 1908 We see how Germany and Austria were able to convince each other that a general European War in 1914 could not but be an advantage to both...
...member of the American Legion and (I believe) a good American citizen, I wish respectfully to protest against opening the columns of the University daily to the type of Sophomoric and indecent (I use the word advisedly) communications as have recently been printed over the names of Messrs. Wyman and Lippitt. It seems too bad to lower the dignity of the paper by marring its columns with such outbursts of childish petulance, no matter in how good a cause, and reminds one rather forcibly of the verbose, political fury for which certain small western journals were once notorious...