Word: protestable
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...years of experimentation in technical devices and sonorous nothings. Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson,--nearly all, indeed, who have most completely mastered the literary art,--have had their periods of aureate preciousness beside which anything in the undergraduate poetry of the present pales into insignificance. Little is ever gained by protests against too much attention to technic. In a time when almost any style of delivery is tolerated provided the ball cuts the plate, such a protest seems particularly inopportune...
...entire club system as extravagant, demoralizing and undemocratic. Since then more than seventy of their classmates have taken the same stand. On last Wednesday the struggle entered a new phase, when seven prominent seniors resigned from their clubs and joined the insurgent sophomores, as an open and vigorous protest against the system which they could not reform from the inside...
...moved to protest against compulsory training because we have seen what compulsion has done in so democratic a country as England. We note the fate of the several thousand men whose consciences will not allow them to become part of a military machine whose purpose is the destruction of life. We recognize that conscription laws usually provide for conscientious scruples, but unfortunately the men who are appointed to judge the validity of these scruples are either military men or civilians of a military mind. They are unable to comprehend the workings of a conscience different from their own. These British...
Government Protest Not Known...
President Lowell Signed Protest...