Word: complain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Those who see the freshman eleven often complain of the utter lack of spirit which is shown. It is a matter which we feel disposed to speak harshly about, for we see a freshman team throwing away all its practice time and living in fond hope that strength may come from somewhere. We can assure the freshmen that if a solid rush line is not formed and if the game is not thoroughly understood by every one, all the help it is possible for them to get later will be of little...
...game this afternoon is, for all intents and purposes, a championship game, and will therefore be watched with unusual interest. The Wesleyan games have always been hard fought and well worth seeing. We have heard a few men complain that the football management is overstepping its bounds in charging extra for reserved seats, but if the foregoing facts are kept in mind, every one will admit that this is only just. Moreover there has been no football subacription this year, and the eleven is incurring usual expenses, so that funds must be raised somehow. We see no better...
...such. It is bad enough that the clubs in question should be forced to sing and play to empty seats; but when an audience, small though it may be, is not accorded by the management the ordinary civilities of an entertainment, it is high time for all concerned to complain. The Glee and Banjo Clubs certainly have been too kind to the university crew management in the past to be put by them into a position so compromising as that of Tuesday night...
...four entries was forfeited. When Harvard men entered for the Yale games they all contested; and Harvard naturally expected to have Yale men reciprocate. The publication of the Yale men's names on the program was an inducement to some spectators to attend, and they had a right to complain of the absentees. It the failure to compete was unavoidable comment is out of place; but this second occurrence makes it seem intentional...
...fully three weeks earlier than last year in order that men may see what the contests are to be in, and may have enough time in which to prepare themselves. The men intending to enter will do well to consider that this year they will have no ground to complain that too short a time has been given them to work...