Word: complain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York University Law School spoke next. What can a people without land be, except lawless? In the Catholic Church, a man excommunicated is out of the community - almost literally. The Indians are in a similar state, they are excommunicated. It must follow that they are lawless and we cannot complain. We demand for the Indians an amenability to law and the right of appeal to law. The alternative...
...have occasionally heard some grumbling that the rule was unnecessarily strict. As a matter of fact the results in the case have more than warranted the increased stringency. Some years ago parents used to complain that their sons, in an attempt to contest when not physically able, were sometimes seriously hurt. The rule which was then passed for a remedy proved insufficient. For a year or so past, it has been found to work very unsatisfactorily. The regulation now in effect was the only reasonable and thorough solution of the difficulty...
...operative Society has shown itself to be a necessity. The last report is ample proof of this. We cannot find anything to complain of in the condition of the society at present; it is on a firm financial basis, and carried on a larger scale than any other college co-operative institution. The most satisfactory feature of the society is that it does accomplish its purpose and furnishes the college a long list of the most necessary articles at a very much reduced price. If the present management keeps up the methods now employed, we look forward to a long...
...Missions of Alta California," and there is also a flourishing department of "Californiana." The California articles, as well as one on the old homesteads along the James, by Charles Washington Coleman, are accompanied by most artistic and picturesque illustrations. A foreigner seeing them must wonder why Americans can complain at the lack of picturesqueness on their continent. But we who are to the manor born are not so easily deceived and know that the charming pictures in the current magazines contain more of the artist's self than of the scene he has pretended to copy...
...profits, which will be devoted to dividends, is advisable. It is not right that a business of such large and increasing proportions, should be obliged o work on a capital unnecessarily restricted. It may make a slight deduction fro each man's dividend, but no one ough complain. It will be observed that the business of this year is over twenty five hundred dollars greater than for the corresponding period last year, a fact which is due to more efficient superintendence, and a competent man in charge of the book department...