Word: protests
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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This week Stuart Robson completes his engagement at the Tremont with the presentation of A. D. Gordon's new American comedy in three acts, "Is Marriage a failure?" It is an effective protest against illti-med interference by father-in-law and mother-in-law in the domestic economies of young married life. The comedy abounds in the heartiest kind of fun. The pathos is all in one scene, when Mr. Robson writes a manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows...
Every one who boards at Memorial will appreciate the force of any protest which we can enter against the proposed scheme of increasing the number of members of the Dining Association. Of all the things which arouse a spirit of rebellion, nothing could be more effective than to allow more men to crowd into Memorial Hall. The hall is none too satisfactory as it is; if one happens to have an experienced waiter one can get along well enough, but if one is so unfortunate as to have a new man it is anything but a pleasant place to dine...
...senior class election passed off with unusual quiet and rapidity. Seemingly there was not a hitch, but, as the evening went on, it became evident that the elections were pre-arranged and that a kind of "machine" was in operation. We wish to protest against this kind of thing in a Harvard class day election; it is not fitting to the dignity of the occasion and moreover does not allow of a free expression of opinion. It is highly improper for a group of men to carry on a systematic canvass, to hold caucusses and make agreements for mutual benefit...
...that justice was done his memory. On another point Mr. Pellew does not make so strong a case. His attempt to show that the first declaration by the Supreme Court of the unconstitutionality of an act of Congress came in Jay's justiceship is weak; for the court's protest in 1790 was a radically different matter from a constitutional decision. On the whole, however, the author has clearly vindicated his claim that Jay is entitled to the grateful memory of his countrymen...
...scrub series Morrill Dunn's nine defeated the Idlers yesterday by a score of 5 to 3. A protest was made by the Idlers, but disallowed by the base ball management. The game between the Waverleys and the Foxcrofts was postponed till tomorrow...