Word: protests
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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During the past few weeks, the Corporation has taken a step which should not rest without protest. Permission was asked that Mrs. Pankhurst, the English suffragist, be allowed the use of a Harvard building in which to deliver an address. A week before, when the Corporation had been petitioned for the use of a hall in which to hold a series of lectures on "The Progressive Movement", the hall was granted only on condition that the public be excluded. The ground taken was that a University building is not the proper place for public political agitation; but that, if only...
...William Lawrence "71, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Protest Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, Will conduct morning prayers for the remainder of the week. Week-day morning prayers being at 8.45 A. M. No sent are reserved. The preacher conducting prayers will be at Wadsworth House 1 every week-day during his term of service from 9 until 10' o'clock...
About the middle of this month the entire country was startled by the publication of a wholesale indictment of American colleges, and among them, Harvard, by Mr. R. T. Crane of Chicago. The extravagant language and the grossly exaggerated statistics called forth a host of editorial comment and protest. The figures were so distorted that, to all who were in any way familiar with college life, they refuted themselves...
Harvard, as the largest and predominant educational institution in Greater Boston, might well and should use the weight of its influence to call attention to and protest against such vicious performances. The University has the best organized and most effective dramatic department in the country. The CRIMSON believes that a plan could be adopted whereby this department might report semi-officially to the mayor in case a play is found morally objectionable. Such recommendations would at least have to be considered, and would probably be of great service to the mayor in the exercise of his difficult and perplexing power...
...outside public such an article can certainly do Harvard no good. If it were true, the CRIMSON would be the last to object to its publication, but since it is both inaccurate and untrue we wish to protest as vigorously as possible against the story in last evening's "American...