Word: protestable
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Villiers de I' Isle Adam was held in great respect by the young school, who considered him as a living protest against the naturalistic tendencies of the time, and as the incarnation of idealism. Although he was well known and admired by the young writers of the idealistic school, he was almost unknown to the public, as were Verlaine and Mallarme...
...Phillips Brooks had to face was the unnatural relationship of religion to morals,--the relationship of speculative to practical religion. This same relationship between speculative religion and the simple way of living had existed for ages, and it was this state of affairs against which Bishop Brooks made his protest. The innermost key to the power of the great divine was his perfect balance between religious faith and true moral living. Religion at Harvard, as seen by an outsider, may be considered from three points of view. The point of view which may be taken from the Phillips Brooks House...
After two years' absence from the University I have immediately had occasion to notice the unfortunate management of the evening lectures, and I beg leave to express, through your columns, a serious protest against a method which provides seats for the public and turns from the doors the men of the University. I had, perhaps, expected that progression had been at work so far as to provide against this unwise and unjust condition, and so my feeling is as much that of disappointment as of renewed indignation...
Remedies are so obvious that it is idle to suggest. The evil is so aggravating that it is impossible--after years--not to protest. A GRADUATE...
Permit an undergraduate, who has cheered the football team during his four years in College, to enter a protest against the distribution of tickets for the Yale game by the football management. Certainly undergraduate holders of season tickets have a right to expect better seats than those in the corners, on the ends, or on the Yale side. It seems as if, with 34,000 seats at its disposal, the management has been injudiciously liberal in its disposal of tickets to "old players, coaches and members of the 'Varsity team" and perhaps to others not mentioned in the CRIMSON...